Health

I suspect that it will be Health and Education which cause, in the long term, problems for this coalition government. Both have got off to a doubtful start. Eduction is sidetracked by the desire of a few parents to set up their own schools and all schools being invited to become Academies pronto, without a clear definition of what resources will be left for those who do not.

Now the new Health Secretary has announced that Hospitals are to be fined if patients are discharged then have to be readmitted. This is an utterly ridiculous policy betraying a shocking ignorance of the working and objectives of healthcare provision, which will encourage yet more defensive process and clogging of the system. It is the kind of Whitehall directive so favoured by the last government but which should be anathema to this new one.

Think again, please!