Editor's Blog

Jun
22

Editorial Thursday 21 June 2012: Chairman Mal speaks: Malcolm Grant

Chairman Mal - Professor Malcolm Grant of the NHS Commissioning Board - opens with Cathy Newman joke about shaving his
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Jun
22

Editorial Thursday 21 June 2012: Comrade Sir David Nicholson speaks (The 'No Communist Imagery' edition)

Comrade Sir David Nicholson was described as the Anneka Rice of the Health Service by chair Cathy Newman. ...................................................................... Click here
11 min read
Jun
21

Editorial Tuesday 19 June 2012: Words of Worth outline Tory frustration over reform

Health policy adviser to Number 10 Downing Street Sean Worth gave this extremely revealing exit interview to The Guardian [http:
4 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Wednesday 20 June 2012: Review of Andrew Lansley's NHS Confederation speech

Andrew Lansley's speech to the NHS Confederation today [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1393] was, unexpectedly, very
1 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Wednesday 20 June 2012: An exclusive preview of Andrew Lansley's NHS Confederation speech

As we did last year [”http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1191”], Health Policy Insight has an exclusive leak of
4 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Tuesday 12 June 2012: The British Social Attitudes NHS survey and the NHS staff survey

Health Policy Insightexclusively revealed last year that the Department of Health was discontinuing its funding of the health questions in
6 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Monday 18 June 2012: We can remember it for you wholesale

This afternoon the British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers enjoyed the benefit of me chuntering on at them about health policy
1 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Tuesday 19 June 2012: Rationing and rationalising - thoughts on the GP survey of low-value procedures

GP magazine's Tom Moberly has carried out a FOI study of PCTs' policies of limiting access to
4 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Tuesday 19 June 2012: Cancer network funding thrown into uncertainty

Westminster Hall debates in Parliament rarely make the news, but today's by Lib Dem MP John Pugh must
2 min read
Jun
20

Editorial Wednesday 20 June 2012: Shadowing Confed, there may be trouble ahead

The annual NHS Confederation conference begins today, and two documents help set the scene. The first is the latest BMJ
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