Editor's Blog

Oct
28

Editorial Monday 14 July 2014: A modest proposal on NHS and public sector funding

'Pecs Dance' [http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/finance/minister-dismisses-warning-of-imminent-nhs-funding-crisis/5072886.article>This denial of an imminent
3 min read
Oct
18

Editorial Sunday 16 October 2016: The Incredible Shrinking Imperial Phase and "the NHS's own plans for itself"

The Imperial Phase in 10 Downing Street just keeps getting shorter. Tony Blair's lasted just over a Parliament
2 min read
Oct
17

Editorial Saturday 15 October 2016: The bed of nails, leaking from the top and sucking it up

In the world of health policy, life imitates art: the first time as tragedy, the second time as Yes, Minister
3 min read
Oct
15

Editorial Monday 12 September 2016: Interview - Simon Stevens, chief executive, NHS England

Health Policy Insight: Do you agree that hospital A&Es are currently under real pressure? Simon Stevens: Definitely. The
7 min read
Sep
26

Editorial Friday 23 September 2016: The Two-Year Forward View - STPs, the exam question and playing 'Chicken'

HPI readers with elephantine memories will remember that there was a time before NHS England's boss was Sun
4 min read
Sep
05

Editorial Friday 2 September 2016: The two places where the junior doctors' dispute could be won

The British Medical Association has gone nuclear in its plans for the next stage of protest against the new contract
2 min read
Jul
28

Editorial Thursday 27 July 2016: Politics, comedy and the Overton Window

The Overton Window [”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window”] is a political theory, which holds that there is a
3 min read
Jul
24

Editorial Tuesday 28 June 2016: Labouring under the delusion of secrecy - the clandestine McDonnell policy review

Ever since Jeremy Corbyn's spectacular victory in the Labour Party's leadership context [http://www.labour.org.
3 min read
Jul
15

Editorial Thursday 14 July 2016: New PM Theresa May retains Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary

2016 is a year of surprises: I got a couple of political predictions right. Both were on Twitter: first up,
3 min read
Jul
08

Editorial Thursday 7 July 2016: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's speech to the 2016 Reform Health conference

Consider a country that has run out of money, just come out of a damaging battle in Europe with huge
8 min read