Manchester conference diary - day three
I'm not even going to try to describe Boris Johnson's speech: as someone once said, if a thing defies description, let it.
There was a really powerful session this afternoon on education and health. The Executive director of Nursing at Salford Royal hospital, Elaine Inglesby, described the work being done at that hospital to drive up the standard of safety and patient care. She used one phrase which I will particularly remember
"We ask our staff to judge our care by this standard: 'Is this good enough for your mum? If not, is it good enough for anyone else's mum?'"
Jeremy Hunt's speech which followed was a passionate defence of the good things the NHS achieves and he went out of his way to praise those who work so hard for it. But he also said that those who love the NHS should be the first to work to put right anything that goes wrong with the care it gives to patients.
John Rentoul of the Independent had a good piece today, posted shortly after Jeremy Hunt spoke, in which he pointed out that "the tories have as much claim to the NHS as does the party of Nye Bevan."
I was about to describe a superlative contribution about how to give youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds and opportunity to get on from Lindsay Johns, but I have just been advised that the computers open to conference delegates will be shutting down in a few minutes and I cannot do justice to it in that time, so I will cover this in tomorrow's diary entry.
There was a really powerful session this afternoon on education and health. The Executive director of Nursing at Salford Royal hospital, Elaine Inglesby, described the work being done at that hospital to drive up the standard of safety and patient care. She used one phrase which I will particularly remember
"We ask our staff to judge our care by this standard: 'Is this good enough for your mum? If not, is it good enough for anyone else's mum?'"
Jeremy Hunt's speech which followed was a passionate defence of the good things the NHS achieves and he went out of his way to praise those who work so hard for it. But he also said that those who love the NHS should be the first to work to put right anything that goes wrong with the care it gives to patients.
John Rentoul of the Independent had a good piece today, posted shortly after Jeremy Hunt spoke, in which he pointed out that "the tories have as much claim to the NHS as does the party of Nye Bevan."
I was about to describe a superlative contribution about how to give youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds and opportunity to get on from Lindsay Johns, but I have just been advised that the computers open to conference delegates will be shutting down in a few minutes and I cannot do justice to it in that time, so I will cover this in tomorrow's diary entry.
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