Health Policy Insight
Healthcare management online analysis and intelligence
The home of UK health policy
Editor's Blog
Editor's Blog
The Editor's daily bulletin, by Andy Cowper
Guest editorial Friday 6 December 2013: Why the NHS definitely needs drones, by CSU Cassander06/12/13
Editorial Tuesday 15 October 2013: Hunt and Burnham dance to The Masochism Tango15/10/13
Guest editorial: Jeremy Twunt on the future of Conservative health policy22/07/13
Wednesday 17 July 2013: The Keogh Review process matters as much as the outcome, and a thought about the NHS England CEO job17/07/13
Editorial Monday 15 July 2013: Back to the future with 'hit squads' for many Keogh troubled trusts: rewarding failure?15/07/13
Editorial Monday 15 July 2013: 'Bring out your dead' - the eve of Keogh and The Politician's Syllogism15/07/13
Editorial Friday 5th July 2013: The NHS at 65 - neither shy nor retiring05/07/13
Editorial Tuesday 25 June 2013: Cynthia Bower & Jill Finney involved in major, unevidenced changes to CQC 'Take Care Now' report25/06/13
Editorial Tuesday 25 June 2013: Welcome to the blogosphere and The Age Of Noise, Comrade Sir David Nicholson25/06/13
Editorial Thursday 20 June 2013: CQC releases names of the four at the table for Morecambe Bay cover-up report deletion20/06/13
Editorial Thursday 20 June 2013: Humpty Dumpty, J M Barrie and the art and the dirty little secret of the political cover-up20/06/13
Editorial Wednesday 19 June 2013: Why redacting the name of the CQC cover-up leader for Data Protection Act reasons is bullshit19/06/13
Editorial Monday 17 June 2013: The Patient's Charter rides again17/06/13
Editorial Wednesday 12 June 2013: Closing time12/06/13
Editorial Wednesday 12 June 2013: Hansard of the children's heart surgery statement in the Commons12/06/13
Regular Columns
Regular Columns
The Maynard Doctrine
The Maynard Doctrine: It's the clinicians, stupid!19/11/13
The Maynard Doctrine: A guide to the bollocksfest of NHS management jargon16/09/13
The Maynard Doctrine: What to do with “Big Pharma”?24/07/13
The Maynard Doctrine: A leak from Lynton on policy and strategy03/07/13
The Maynard Doctrine: Are policymakers and politicians stupid, ignorant, or both?14/05/13
The Maynard Doctrine: The harsh reality of NHS reform: time to end the purchaser-provider split22/04/13
The Maynard Doctrine: Cautionary policymaking tales05/03/13
The Maynard Doctrine: Why are managers so dumb?28/01/13
The Maynard Doctrine: The arrogant and the ignorant must be collaborative friends03/01/13
The Maynard Doctrine: What the NHS Mandate misses, or ‘Another Episode Of Nero Playing His Violin Whilst The NHS Burns?’28/11/12
The Maynard Doctrine: The vultures coming home to roost24/10/12
The Maynard Doctrine: The Chronicles Of Nirvania, home of unicorns and zombies05/10/12
The Maynard Doctrine: Is the world mad or sad? The return of the global budget must await.12/07/12
The Maynard Doctrine: Managing NHS demand22/06/12
The Maynard Doctrine: Managing ambiguity – is discretion the better part of valour?08/05/12
Health Policy Today
A daily teatime summary, analysing the day's debate, by Tom Smith
Health Policy Today 3rd October 2011: Labouring over late diagnosis03/10/11
Health Policy Today 26 September 2011: Responsibility for early diagnosis26/09/11
A radical, unavoidable future for the NHS, whoever wins: Health Policy Today 6 May 201006/05/10
Andy, Norman or Andrew; which Health Secretary wannabe to make omelettes without breaking eggs? Health Policy Today 22 April '1023/04/10
Obama’s political prose puts the wheels back on health reform and lead in the pencil of House legislators: Health Policy Today 10/09/09
David Cameron, NHS ladies' man: Health Policy Today 28 July 200928/07/09
An A-Z of US healthcare politics: Health Policy Today 25 July 200924/07/09
Make tough choices? They won't even write them down. Health Policy Today, 9 July 200909/07/09
Back to Griffiths and management basics - manage the money, manage the medics: Health Policy Today 9 June 200909/06/09
To laugh or cry about 'iGP' proposals? Health Policy Today 12th March 2009.10/03/09
Amid a snowy backdrop, moves afoot to whiten rules and procedures: Health Policy Today 2nd February 200902/02/09
Giving it some attitude: feedback for health policy from 2009 British Social Attitudes report - Health Policy Today,30th January30/01/09
Obama's health reform plans to cover the unemployed begin now – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200921/01/09
Constructing routines to better support teams – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200919/01/09
2009: when economics and politics collide – Health Policy Today, 11 January 200912/01/09
Features
Features
Tuesday 13 July 2010: Sir David Nicholson's 'Dear colleague' letter on the White Paper changes13/07/10
Sir David Nicholson speech to NHS Confederation conference 25 June 201005/07/10
Andrew Lansley speech to NHS Confederation conference 24 June 201024/06/10
Dr Michael Dixon speech to NHS Alliance conference 200920/10/09
‘Looking ahead to 2010/11: healthcare beyond the next general election’ - the 2009 Wellards Annual Conference14/10/09
Guest editorial 10 June 2009: Bob Sang - Health gain: the true test of quality for 21st century healthcare10/06/09
Breaking down tribal barriers: the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT commissioning collaboration with Tribal PLC (part 1 of 4)09/06/09
Coles to a new castle: Patrick Carter, chair of the new NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel16/09/08
Tax breaks for health? Policy update from the 2008 Lib Dem party conference15/09/08
Kings Fund debate 11 September 2008. What is fair – should patients be allowed to top up their care?11/09/08
Reforming the funding? It's an (in)sure thing09/09/08
A gentlemen’s agreement, or a gentleman’s excuse-me?03/07/08
What’s your take-up on technology?26/06/08
Nick Timmins: Top-ups: the earth moves as the NHS's 60th anniversary approaches17/06/08
Colloquia
Colloquia 31 July 2008: new ways of incentivising clinical performance31/07/08
Colloquia: markets and choice in healthcare14/07/08
Colloquia: ministering to clinical priorities, or political ones?07/07/08
Colloquia: talking about Darzi29/06/08
Interviews
Interview: Andrew Taylor, NHS Co-Operation and Competition Panel18/10/11
Interview: Nick Bosanquet - Progress towards The Bosanquet Hypothesis?15/06/11
Simon Stevens 2011 Health Policy Insight interview - Making sense of the NHS reforms23/04/11
Interview - Stephen Dorrell MP, chair, Commons Health Select Committee31/03/11
Interview - Sir Robert Naylor, chief executive, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust05/07/10
Interview: Dr Peter Brambleby, director of public health, Croydon - commissioning, austerity and the new public health25/06/10
Interview: Timothy Heymann, reader in health management and consultant – a secondary care perspective on commissioning and refor24/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance - bringing clincians and mangers together to commission23/06/10
Interview: Andrew Donald – a PCT perspective on the coming of clinical commissioning21/06/10
Interview: Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive, NHS Confederation – radical reforms with commissioning, choice and innovation 18/06/10
Interview: Matt Tee, Permanent Secretary of Government Communications, Cabinet Office12/05/10
Interview - Dr Bill Moyes, executive chair, Monitor13/01/10
Interview - Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance16/10/09