Ministerial powers to intervene should be increased. Some contentious proposals can already be referred by a local authority to the Health Secretary.
First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.
Ministers cannot afford to get complacent – here are the steps they should take to prepare.
A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.
His memoir describes the travails of a non-Cameroon during the Coalition and under Conservative majority government.
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
This is the right Minister in the right department. And though his room for manoeuvre is limited, he has a chance to make an impact on families policy.
The early training that David Cameron and his team received in the Conservative Research Department proved decisive.
Sir Peter Tapsell recalled voting in favour of the 1963 Peerage Bill
The book provides a feast of material – and is too canny to pretend to say the last word on its topic.
The third in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.