Editorial Friday 9 January 2015: Circling the plughole ends, as the Hinchingbrooke contract goes down the drain
To the enormous surprise of absolutely no-one with a hint of knowledge of what's
happening in the NHS,
Editorial Friday 19 December 2014: Thoughts on A&E pressure from 2006
In 2006, I wrote up a conference report of an event on urgent and emergency care
for my friend Rick
Editorial Thursday 13 February 2014: Chain reaction and the Comrade-In-Chief on change
Health policy via 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau]? Why not?
Yesterday, Health Service Journal
The Maynard Doctrine: NHS England And The Holy Grail (of NHS productivity gains)
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard gives a masterclass in the taxonomy of
knights and productivity ruses
Sir Galahad (also known
Editorial Friday 28 March 2014: A quick thought about Simon Stevens
Next week sees the arrival of Simon Stevens as NHS England's new chief
executive.
HPI reisdent economics-and-everything guru
Editorial Tuesday 18 November 2014: Filling the gulf between The Reid Code and the Five-Year Forward View
Denial is much more than a river running through Cairo. It's an understandable,
if unhelpful, response to a
Editorial Thursday 23 October 2014: A subtle subversion – NHS England’s Five-Year Forward View
‘Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law,
happy
is he.’ – Proverbs 29:18
Editorial Monday 13 October 2014: Tory NHS reform mea culpa - 'what Lynton entertainment the players shall receive'
Today's Times leads with a well-briefed story about how senior Tories (no
names,
obviously) now regard having gone
Editorial Wednesday 24 September 2014: Some reflections on Labour's election health policy
Mascara Kid Andy Burnham's speech to the Labour Party conference today
[http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/
Editorial Wednesday 1 October 2014: The Curious Case Of Conservative Health Policy
With the delivery of Secretary Of State Jeremy 'Bellflinger'
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19011788] Hunt'