Editor's Blog

Jul
04

Editor's blog Monday 4 July 2011: Lansley's six social care tests; any more use than his four reconfiguration tests?

The excellent Guardian Politics LiveBlog main man Andrew Sparrow cleverly picked out the bones of Andrew Lansley's Commons
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Jul
04

Guest editorial Monday 4 July 2011: Not bothered by the advent of Market Stalinism

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association [http://www.sochealth.co.uk/] welcomes the advent of Market Stalinism to the
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Jul
02

Editor's blog Friday 1 July 2011: Hansard of Bill Commmittee and PMQs

Links to yesterday's sessions of the Bill Committee are here [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmpublic/
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Jul
02

Editor's blog Thursday 30 June 2011: The ten Tweets of NHS reform

The micro-blogging website Twitter [http://www.twitter.com], where I am to be found  as @HPIAndyCowper, is proving itself a
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Jul
01

Editor's blog Friday 1 July 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 14 Forward, the information-light brigade! In praise of Simon Burns

Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service. The fourteenth issue, 'Forward, the information-light brigade! Let us now
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Jun
30

Editor's blog Monday 27 June 2011: The Health And Social Care Bill has jumped the shark

The gift of prophecy isn’t what it used to be. When I composed ‘The Simon Burns 4 SOS Campaign
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Recommitted Health Bill: key quotes from the 21st century Dada

Words cannot do justice to the sheer surrealism of the recommitted Health Bill committee  evidence session yesterday. Fortunately, the wonderful
7 min read
Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 13, 'The hair apparent', now out

Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service. The thirteenth issue, 'The hair apparent: Health Bill amendments eschew
2 min read
Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Information poverty - the NHS's abiding sin

I attended an interesting session this morning thanks to Ipsos MORI, with input from a respected former health secretary. (Chatham
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Tuesday 28 June 2011: A personal view on why NHS Alliance are not stooges

I'm a big fan of The Stooges, as in Iggy Pop's erstwhile band [http://en.wikipedia.
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