Editor's Blog

Feb
11

Editorial Tuesday 11 February 2014: How is a CSU commercially confidential, Earl Howe?

Now here is An Interesting Things [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldhansrd/text/140206w0001.htm] , brought to my
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Feb
05

Editor’s blog Wednesday 18 May 2011: It’s the economic regulator, stupid

The battle for the credit for ‘saving the NHS reform’ resumes, in the wake of Prime Minister David ‘Shabba’ Cameron’
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Feb
04

Editorial Monday 3 February 2014: Independent regulators, the SPESCious Awards, and spoofing Mark Britnell

I appointed myself as NHS Chief Inspector Of Chief Inspectors [”https://twitter.com/HPIAndyCowper] last year, in the wake of
Feb
04

Editorial Tuesday 4 February 2014: Why privatising the NHS would be A Very Bad Idea

The Twittering Classes were fascinated to notice that NHS England's outgoing chief executive, Comrade Sir David Nicholson had
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Feb
03

Editorial Thursday 24 January 2013: Ten thoughts about Andy Burnham's Labour health policy review speech

In the wholly spurious interests of binary 'balance', here are five snarky observations about shadow health secretary and
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Dec
06

Guest editorial Friday 6 December 2013: Why the NHS definitely needs drones, by CSU Cassander

In this guest editorial, the genius of CSU Cassander is unleashed on solving the woes of the NHS through drone
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Aug
01

Editorial Thursday 10 January 2013: Is commissioning reform the real issue?

We're not very far away from the arrival of the NHS Commissioning Board now. This leads me to
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Jul
22

Guest editorial: Jeremy Twunt on the future of Conservative health policy

Parliament has risen for recess, but the satirical alter ego of the Secretary Of State For Health, swear-word-loving Jeremy Twunt
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Jul
17

Wednesday 17 July 2013: The Keogh Review process matters as much as the outcome, and a thought about the NHS England CEO job

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has a well-earned reputation as nobody's fool. His report into the 14 hospitals he
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Jul
16

Editor’s blog Thursday 17 September 2009: Today’s policy speech by Andy Burnham at the Kings Fund

We are living through a sea-change of health policy. This much you will have noticed. This much has been forced
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