NHS pays moonlighting medics five times as much as Theresa May to plug gaps
“Because NHS pay [is] the same throughout the country, hospitals [have] no way of tempting doctors to work in undesirable areas”, reports The Telegraph, Monday 2 July 2018. That is one of the findings of ‘An NHS Bonus’, a report written by a consultant neurologist and published by the Centre for Policy Studies, which examined… View Article
NHS told to be more flexible on pay, reports The Times
“The NHS should be able to pay staff more in unpopular medical specialisms and in parts of the country where it finds recruitment difficult”, reports The Times, Monday 2 July 2018. That proposal is one of many put forward in a new CPS report ‘An NHS Bonus’, which examines the NHS’ opaque and outmoded pay… View Article
A win for those spending ministers would be a defeat for the taxpayer
“Ministers who should be seen as winners are those who come forwar with proposals for reform that save money and deliver better outcomes”, writes Alex Morton in his column for Conservative Home, 28 June 2018. In his piece, Alex argues that the Coalition government made a costly error by focusing on austerity not prosperity and… View Article
New Blue proposals on mental health adopted by government
The government is set to announce a new mental health deal for university students, as called for by Helen Whately MP in an essay published by the Centre for Policy Studies, reports The Guardian, Thursday 28 June 2018. The essay, published as part of the ‘New Blue: Ideas for a New Generation’ collection, highlighted the combination of… View Article
Any ideas for saving, not spending, taxpayers’ money? Anyone?
There are “far more ideas aired that involve the state spending more, and too few that involve spending less”, writes Robert Colvile in The Times, Wednesday 27 June 2018. To remedy that, the Centre for Policy Studies is launched a savings competition asking MPs and others to come up with ideas to save the taxpayer money “to… View Article
CPS Director on The Week in Westminster
As Theresa May annouced the country will “contribute more” in order to fund a 3.4% funding increased for the NHS, Robert Colvile joined BBC Radio 4’s The Week at Westminster to discuss funding. Robert spoke about recent CPS analysis which showed the NHS’ historically responding to funding increases with decreasing productivity, “as extra money goes into… View Article
Britain needs reminding of China’s challenges and opportunities
Margaret Thatcher recognised that China was “a country with which Britain could – and must – do business” and the Centre for Policy Studies, which she co-founded, shares that belief, writes Robert Colvile, CPS Director. Writing ahead of the Centre for Policy Studies flagship Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain, Robert Colvile outlines the reason behind… View Article
Liam Fox – Improving our trade with China is a major step on the path to prosperity
China is facing “challenges and opportunities” following its economic reorientation but the UK is a “natural partner” to support China in this, writes Dr Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for International Trade, in The Telegraph, Tuesday 19 June 2018. Writing ahead of his speech to the Centre for Policy Studies flaship Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain,… View Article
International trade secretary Liam Fox urges China to play its part in ending tariffs dispute
International trade secretary Liam Fox urged China to “play it’s part” in ending the escalating trade war with the United States, reports City A.M. Liam Fox used his speech to the Centre for Policy Studies Margaret Thatcher Conference on China and Britain to call on international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation to “operate more effectively in… View Article
Lord Saatchi calls on Theresa May to ensure NHS improvements
Lord Saatchi, chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies, urges Theresa May to ensure the NHS spends any funding increases appropriately, highlighting CPS research showing higher spending tends to co-incide with lower efficiency. Writing in The Sun, Lord Saatchi says it is right to be proud of the NHS but we should “feel shame at the… View Article
Let’s talk about how NHS spends our money
Increased funding for the NHS is one thing, making sure the NHS uses it’s resources wisely is another, writes Robert Colvile in The Times 18 June 2018. Following the government’s annoucement of a roughly 3.4% funding increase and CPS analysis showing the NHS tends to spend less efficiently when giving more funding, Robert Colvile urges… View Article
The sorry state of the NHS debate
The current state of debate on the NHS isn’t far off a sketch from the 1987 Spitting Image Election Special, Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley stand up in a car in a town centre, brandish a red megaphone, and proceed to shout “nurses!” repeatedly to the assembled crowd, writes James Heywood, Senior Researcher at the CPS, in… View Article
The EU negotiation. First, let’s use the velvet glove. But if that doesn’t work, the iron fist
“Britain needs to stop kicking the can down the road – because when the road runs out, the Commission has a cage ready for us”, writes Alex Morton for Conservative Home, Wednesday 13 June. Morton, CPS’ Head of Policy, writes following the government’s apparent agreement to allowing Parliament to have a final vote on the… View Article
Unions should reform to appeal to modern workers
Unions like the RMT set themselves against the public when the oppose reform – alienating modern workers, writes Emma Barr in City A.M. Debate column, Tuesday 5 June. Instead of seeking solutions for the modern workplace, unions are too focused on “hard-left Corbynite ideology” and as a result are becoming less relevant to workers. Click here to read the… View Article
Don’t review spending before first reviewing government – and how it doesn’t work
Austerity has failed because it was “the wrong goal”, writes Alex Morton, CPS Head of Policy, in his column for ConservativeHome. Reform of public services, and government itself, should be the focus of “the burden on taxpayers could be reduced and outcomes for government programmes improved”. Alex points to recent CPS analysis which shows increases in NHS funding tend… View Article
Our railways need the same revolution we had in air fares says CPS Research Fellow
“Chris Grayling’s decision to renationalise the East Coast Main Line franchise is thoroughly depressing”, writes Tony Lodge, CPS Research Fellow, in The Times, Thursday 24 May. Lodge, who has written several reports on rail improvement for the Centre for Policy Studies, proposes an “aviation-style solution” with companies bidding for slots on the timetable rather than monopolising services for an entire… View Article
