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
Editorial Thursday 29 January 2015: The future of tariff, the Corinthian spirit and the NHS as a political football29/01/15
Editorial Wednesday 28 January 2015: Text of NHS England's major incidence guidance28/01/15
Editorial Wednesday 21 January 2015: NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens interview21/01/15
Editorial Friday 9 January 2015: Circling the plughole ends, as the Hinchingbrooke contract goes down the drain09/01/15
Editorial Friday 19 December 2014: Thoughts on A&E pressure from 200619/12/14
Editorial Tuesday 18 November 2014: Filling the gulf between The Reid Code and the Five-Year Forward View18/11/14
Editorial Thursday 23 October 2014: A subtle subversion – NHS England’s Five-Year Forward View23/10/14
Editorial Monday 13 October 2014: Tory NHS reform mea culpa - 'what Lynton entertainment the players shall receive'13/10/14
Editorial Wednesday 1 October 2014: The Curious Case Of Conservative Health Policy01/10/14
Editorial Wednesday 24 September 2014: Some reflections on Labour's election health policy24/09/14
Editorial Tuesday 23 September 2014: Labour leader Ed Miliband's health policy announcements today23/09/14
Editorial Monday 22 September 2014: 'Let them eat mansions. And fags.' Labour edge towards reality on NHS spending22/09/14
Editorial Friday 19 September 2014: The NHS is Russia (and postmodernism), basically19/09/14
Editorial Friday 12 September 2014: Well done, Monitor12/09/14
Editorial Friday 18 July 2014: Commissioning - Schrodinger's Cat bred with the Norwegian Blue18/07/14
Regular Columns
Regular Columns
The Maynard Doctrine
The Maynard Doctrine: Memo for Simon ‘Sir Galahad’ Stevens: a message from Merlin05/01/15
The Maynard Doctrine: NHS England And The Holy Grail (of NHS productivity gains)01/12/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Sir Galahad Stevens' quest for the Holy Grail of increased NHS productivity07/11/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Religion and the privates12/09/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Simple Simon says21/07/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Defining low-value care - free lunches and the absence thereof09/06/14
The Maynard Doctrine: “In God we trust. All others bring data”03/06/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Table manners at the healthcare feast - advice for Simon Stevens27/03/14
The Maynard Doctrine: Health policy delusions, supply-induced demand and sanity deficits24/02/14
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
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