Editor's Blog

Sep
13

Editor's blog Tuesday 13 September 2011: What is happening in parts of the private sector?

This piece in today's Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/13/private-healthcare-boosted-by-nhs-rationing] by Denis Campbell
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Sep
13

Editor's blog Monday 12 September 2011: Chase Farm maternity & A&E - the first closure of many

As predicted by the Daily Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8756245/Government-to-merge-Chase-Farm-Hospital-which-David-Cameron-vowed-to-save.html] among others, Secretary Of
3 min read
Sep
07

Editor's blog Wednesday 7th September 2011: Oops, I Did It Again. Cameron misleads House on medical bodies' support for Bill

For the Prime Minister to mislead the House Of Commons (as Health Policy Insight exclusively proved he did over Mark
3 min read
Sep
07

Editor's blog Wednesday 7th September 2011: Humpty Dumpty, centaurs and Alan Partridge in yesterday's Commons Health Bill debate

I don't really know what to say about yesterday's debate on the recommitted Health And Social
5 min read
Sep
07

Editor's blog Tuesday 6th September 2011: Hansard of today's Health And Social Care Bill debate

Hansard have got the transcript online for the schedule debate [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/c_
40 min read
Sep
05

Editor’s blog Monday 13 December 2010: The road to the liberated zone is paved with tight Stalinist controls

I have noticed something about 'The £15-20 Billion Man' Sir David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS. He’
3 min read
Sep
02

Editor's blog Friday 2nd September 2011: The closed culture of NHS management

The closed nature of the NHS's management culture isn't much of a surprise once you'
1 min read
Sep
01

Editor's blog Thursday 1 September 2011: Failure regime for FTs detailed; huge roles for Monitor as 'the new DH'

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett, 'Worstward Ho'
9 min read
Sep
01

Editor's blog Wednesday 31 August 2011: Degrees of dissonance on the Secretary Of State's duty to provide or promote a NHS

The effective campaign group 38 Degrees has turned its digital guns on NHS reforms, with their commissioning and publication of
5 min read
Aug
30

Editor's blog Tuesday 30 August 2011: Atos Healthcare's action against CarerWatch discussion forum

The French multinational Atos are key players in the Department for Work and Pensions' disability assessment / return to work
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