some very confused messages coming out of the Conservatives as regards their plans for the health service.
Last year it was all about getting the managers to keep out of things and going back to Matron etc. Now it sounds like he wants to make managers act by penalising offending hospitals financially.
Looks like he is reverting back to finding a bandwagon and jumping on it without having any real answers himself.
I would not take much notice, he had to do a speech for the start of the new year and choise what he thought would make him sound nice against boring Mr Grumpy Gordon Brown. Its very transparent to me, and I doubt anyone will remember what he siad tomorrow let alone in two year time.
It is not the cards you are dealt but what you do with them that counts