Editor's Blog

Oct
26

Editorial Friday 26 October 2012: Ipsos MORI polling for DH finds growing public dislike and distrust of the NHS reforms

We highlighted previously that the long-running British Social Attitudes survey and the NHS staff survey found that staff and the
8 min read
Oct
25

Editorial Tuesday 23 October 2012: Jeremy 'Bellflinger' Hunt - the Norman Puddifoot of Health Secretaries

At the risk of making myself persona numquam grata among the elite of the health policy universe, I must confess
41 min read
Oct
23

Editorial Tuesday 23 October 2012: Chatham House chat on customer service. Oh, and Tim Kelsey wants you to use the NHS Number

Last night, I went to a meeting about 'making the NHS a world-class customer service'. Which was nice.
1 min read
Oct
22

Editorial Thursday 18 October 2012: The Bellflinger gets an adviser - Sam Talbot Rice

Health Service Journal breaks the story that Health Secretary Jeremy 'Bellflinger' [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19011788]
3 min read
Oct
18

Editorial Thursday 18 October 2012: More congratulations to the NHS on another excellent waiting times performance

It is worth recording that yet again, amid chaos, QIPP and the tragic loss of Simon Burns to transport, the
1 min read
Oct
14

Editor's blog Tuesday 23 November: Health Select Committee on public expenditure - Lansley, Nicholson, Douglas

The health select committee meets to hear evidence from Health Secretary Andrew Lansley (AL), NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson
23 min read
Oct
13

Health Policy Intelligence 50: Lansleyshambles - game over, as Jeremy ‘Bellflinger’ Hunt does the reconfiguration hokey-cokey

Below are the first few paragraphs of the latest issue of our subscription-based publication Health Policy Intelligence. Subscription is £69
3 min read
Oct
13

Editorial Wednesday 3 October 2012: A first glimpse of Huntism: Mick Hucknell redux

We might be getting our first glimpse of Huntism in this interview for Tory in-flight magazine The Spectator [http://blogs.
1 min read
Oct
13

Editorial Friday 5 October 2012: Another glimpse of Huntism: the principle of the 24-week abortion time limit; down to 12 weeks?

Goodness me. The 'Hunt Jeremy' game is well and truly over. Sam Coates, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thompson
1 min read
Oct
13

Editorial Friday 5 October 2012: Huntism - The Times, they are for changing

The whole Times interview with The Bellflinger [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19011788], Jeremy Hunt, is now online, and
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