A New Entitlement to Health: A Lib Dem Approach

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Labour's centralised NHS is over. Patients must get the treatment they want when they need it – and that means top-up payments - by Nick Clegg

We've had 11 years of Labour's approach to public services – centralising, micromanaging, pouring unprecedented amounts of money in through a tiny funnel in No 10 – but that's come to an end. Because New Labour is dead in the water.
And the state of the economy means there is no more money to pour in, no matter which party forms the government. So now is the time for new thinking about how to get more without spending more.
When we consider changing the NHS, we must think big. It is time to deliver to England's patients the standards of personal care, individual empowerment and accountability that millions of patients elsewhere in Europe take for granted. But we must deliver that without destroying the ethos of solidarity and equality, which rightly underpins an NHS funded through progressive taxation.

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