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At the last election, The Independent on Sunday ran a series of in-depth analyses of the questions that none of the parties wanted to discuss. These included the deficit – about which there was a pre-election silence after the Conservatives realised that their talk of austerity was scaring the voters – and Afghanistan. They did not include the National Health Service. This time, though, the NHS might be one of those big unmentionables.
This might be surprising. The Conservatives may not want to talk about the NHS, changing the subject to the economy every time it is raised, saying that you need a strong economy to pay for it. But, surely, the Labour Party has made it clear that it regards the NHS as the most important single question of the campaign and goes on about it all the time.
What we mean, however, is not that the NHS will not be mentioned, but that none of the parties will discuss the fundamental questions of how to improve the service and whether the NHS model is sustainable.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/we-need-to-talk-about-the-nhs-10031245.html
This might be surprising. The Conservatives may not want to talk about the NHS, changing the subject to the economy every time it is raised, saying that you need a strong economy to pay for it. But, surely, the Labour Party has made it clear that it regards the NHS as the most important single question of the campaign and goes on about it all the time.
What we mean, however, is not that the NHS will not be mentioned, but that none of the parties will discuss the fundamental questions of how to improve the service and whether the NHS model is sustainable.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/we-need-to-talk-about-the-nhs-10031245.html