David Cameron's comments about the National Health Service today have been heartening to say the least.They've served to highlight another issue however. The inequality between the services provided by the NHS in each of the Home Countries. Dr Gill Morgan, who is the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, is reported to have said that devolution has caused even more of a 'post code lottery' in health care.
The Daily Telegraph reports the situation here.
She suggests that there is unlikely to be any 'health migration' within the UK. That comment misses the point to my mind. The fact that there are inequalities in the service provided in each of the home countries is bad enough. What is worse is that the situation remains where MPs from the three nations with devolved powers continue to decide on the health policies of the nation that has no devolved government.
It's time that English MPs voted on English matters. Only then can the health priorities of England be truly, democratically addressed.
