Editor's Blog

Mar
20

Editorial Tuesday 20 March 2012: Health Policy Intelligence 43 and 44 - From Bill-Killing to blamestorming

The following extract is the first part of  the new issue of our regular subscription-based product Health Policy Intelliegence. Subscription
5 min read
Mar
20

Editorial Monday 27 February 2012: A bullshitometer reading of the Clegg-Williams letter to Lib Dems in Parliament

The splendid Politics Home has obtained the text of the letter to Lib Dem peers by Deputy Prime Minister Nick
6 min read
Mar
20

Editorial Tuesday 28 February 2012: Sam Everington's game-changer

Dr Sam Everington, famous for the innovative Bromley-By-Bow Health Centre [http://www.bbbc.org.uk/], has written to the PM
1 min read
Mar
20

Editorial Thursday 8 March 2012: Gustav Mahler and the rival Lib Dem Spring Conference motions

The text of Baroness Williams' Liberal Democrat Spring Conference motion this weekend has been published by Lib Dem councillor
3 min read
Mar
20

Guest editorial Monday 12 March 2012: Liberating the Risk Register - it's all about 'freedom, fairness and responsibility'

Today's guest editorial comes from health policy and strategy consultant Joe Farrington-Douglas, former health policy special advisor to
4 min read
Mar
20

Editorial Monday 19 March 2012: #Winning!, with Andrew Lansley's Pelican Bill

The House of Lords today rejected both Lord Owen's motion to delay and Baroness Thornton's motion
1 min read
Mar
20

Editor’s blog Monday 12 July 2010: The 2010 NHS White Paper ‘Equity and excellence – liberating the NHS’

As an active and wealthy pre-conversion libertine, Saint Francis of Assisi prayed “Oh Lord, make me virtuous - but not
13 min read
Mar
15

Editor's blog Wednesday 23 February 2011: Stalin meets Heath Robinson

Hands up if you can explain the consistency of what’s going on in health policy? No, thought not. Within
1 min read
Mar
13

Editor's blog Thursday 17 February 2011: Competition in healthcare (again) - Ham, Moyes, means and ends

Competition is back as one of the health policy buzz-words. Its early 2000s iteration was under the slightly veiled guise
4 min read
Mar
06

Editor’s blog Thursday 20 May 2010: The government’s Coalition Agreement on NHS and health policy reviewed

The Coalition Agreement [”http://programmeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk/files/2010/05/coalition-programme.pdf] starts with three words, in 56-point type
13 min read