Editor's Blog

Feb
13

Editorial Wednesday 13 February 2013: Text of SOS Jeremy Hunt's speech to the Reform 'The New NHS' conference

Courtesy of the DH website [http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2013/02/12/12-february-2013-jeremy-hunt-reform-an-nhs-that-treats-people-as-individuals/] , here is the text of Health
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Feb
11

Editorial Monday 11 February 2013: Health Secretary's Commons statement on social care funding changes

From Hansard [http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/361/] , today's statement in the
31 min read
Feb
10

Editorial Sunday 10 February 2013: On one of the five high-mortality trusts

The identity of one of the five high-mortality trusts whose investigations were announced in the wake of Francis [http://www.
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Feb
07

Editorial Wednesday 6 February 2013: The Francis Public Inquiry Report, and what it means

"This is not something which can be blamed simplistically on one policy or another, or on failings on the
14 min read
Feb
07

Editorial Wednesday 6 February 2013: PM David Cameron's statement in response to The Francis Public Inquiry Report

From the Number 10 website [http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/prime-ministers-statement-on-mid-staffs/]. ...................................................................... Click here for details of 'Francis is
9 min read
Feb
07

Editorial Wednesday 6 February 2013: Robert Francis QC's statement on publication of the Public Inquiry Report

Text of Robert Francis QC's press statement at the launch of his public inquiry report [http://cdn.midstaffspublicinquiry.
12 min read
Feb
05

Editorial Tuesday 5 February 2013: The Big Beast Fallacy and a thousand chocolate teapots - on responsibility for Mid-Staffs

The Francis Public Inquiry into Mid-Staffs will publish tomorrow. Prime Minister David Cameron will respond in the Commons. Will it
6 min read
Jan
30

Editorial Wednesday 30 January 2013: Why NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is the new Justin Timberlake

NHS Comrade In Chief Sir David Nicholson outed himself as a one-man Salt 'n' Pepa [http://www.youtube.
2 min read
Jan
29

Editorial Tuesday 29 January 2013: Lord Owen's googly and Coalition unity

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Parliamentary water, a big beast resurfaces. Lord David
18 min read
Jan
28

Editorial Monday 28 January 2013: The clinical confusion and democratic deficit in healthcare reconfiguration

On Saturday, I saw that Enfield North MP Nick de Bois (a Conservative) had published an open letter on his
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