Chris Hopson, the head of the organisation representing NHS trusts has called for parties to avoid “cheap political slogans” during the general election campaign. An example of a potentially misleading campaign, notes Hopson, is the Conservative promise of funding as the level of NHS funding increases promised by the Conservatives would do no more than maintain current provision, rather than take the NHS to “sunlit uplands”.
Full story in The Guardian, 4 November 2019