The Health and Care Bill: what can the government learn from 2011?

The Health and Care Bill: what can the government learn from 2011? It barely seems it, but a decade ago the health and care system (or the bit of it that gets really excited by parliamentary processes) was in the middle of ‘the pause’ in April and May 2011. Fast forward to present day, and another Health and Social Care Bill has been confirmed in this week’s Queen’s Speech and is expected to be introduced early in the new Parliamentary session. Has the government learnt the lessons of the last big legislative upheaval in the NHS? The King's Fund

See also:

• Queen's Speech 2021 Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Queen’s speech shows government recognises major health challenges facing the country but not the scale of action needed The Health Foundation
• If not now, when? The long overdue promise of social care reform The Health Foundation
• The King's Fund comments on the Queen's Speech The King's Fund
• Further delay to social care reform a betrayal of commitments made by government Nuffield Trust
• Queen's Speech: PM sets out plans to take UK forward after Covid  BBC News
• The Queen's Speech - what you need to know in two minutes BBC News
• Queen's Speech: Lack of social care plan 'unforgivable', says Labour's Sir Keir Starmer BBC News
• Anger over failure in Queen’s speech to set out social care plans The Guardian
• What made it into the Queen’s speech, and what was left out The Guardian