http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2962078-8/fulltext?rss=yes

The Lancet remembers well the genuine excitement we felt at the commitment 
that the Labour government made in 1997 to attack health inequalities in 
Britain. The dismal record of the Conservatives before them?who hated the 
very idea of inequalities, preferring instead ?variations? in health?left 
a deep scar on the National Health Service. The creation of Donald 
Acheson's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health was a new 
opportunity to recalibrate the health service to meet the needs of the 
most deprived communities in the UK. Our sense of hope was, it turned out, 
misplaced. Labour presided over 13 years of failure. Inequalities in 
health widened despite huge investment in the NHS. The reasons for this 
failure have now been exposed in an astonishingly candid report, published 
last week by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. This 
committee examines how taxpayers' money is spent. It is chaired by a 
Labour Member of Parliament, Margaret Hodge. She has produced a tale of 
decrepitude at every level of the health system. ....

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