Summary
New Labour was not alone in falling in love with these new-model hospitals. Britain's Tories were believers, too. Liam Fox, Conservative shadow health secretary from 1999-2003, had visited the Fundacin Hospital Alcorcon a couple of months before Milburn.
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From Spain, a Not so Healthy Role Model
On a visit to Spain to recruit nurses in 2001, the then health secretary, Alan Milburn, came across what struck him as a brilliant initiative - foundation hospitals. Introduced to Spain in 1997 by the Conservatives (against loud protests from Spain's Socialist Party), the hospitals were ...
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