The Maynard Doctrine

Sep
09

The Maynard Doctrine: Time to abolish Payment By Results

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard suggests that PbR has outlived its usefulness, and that management has failed to act meaningfully
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Aug
31

The Maynard Doctrine: Tackling obesity - know your enemy!

Professor Alan Maynard looks at the growing health problems created by obesity, and wonders when Government will start to get
3 min read
Aug
10

The Maynard Doctrine: What’s the alternative to Lansley’s reforms?

We have been inundated by protests about the NHS reforms championed by Andrew Lansley. A media frenzy has followed the
4 min read
Jul
19

The Maynard Doctrine: Lessons from America - can we bend the cost curve?

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard looks at the integration panacea hypothesis, and points the finger at where we need to
3 min read
Jul
01

The Maynard Doctrine: Time to plug data and analytical gaps?

Professor Alan Maynard on data use, incentives, PROMs, private sector HES and a 1974 Burlington. The reformed NHS has some
3 min read
Jun
15

The Maynard Doctrine: After U-turns and Utopia, reality bites - fiddling while Rome burns

Professor Alan Maynard gets back to the real issues of NHS reform: funding and quality control. The protracted “listening exercise”
4 min read
May
30

The Maynard Doctrine: Changing the NHS

Professor Alan Maynard suggests that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is not so bad, and that the current financial crisis means
4 min read
May
17

The Maynard Doctrine - In The Land Of Blah, the Policy Zombies thrive!

Health economist nonpareil Professor Alan Maynard looks into the Steve Field and Mark Britnell interventions, in search of susbstance. This
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Apr
06

The Maynard Doctrine: The Ten Efficient Commissioning Commandments

Health economist nonpareil Professor Alan Maynard considers how we might do something really radical, like focusing on how to make
4 min read
Jan
27

The Maynard Doctrine: Building NHS reforms on sand - whatever happened to evidence-based policymaking?

Professor Alan Maynard suggests that evidence for a primary care-led NHS is seriously lacking. When an expensive system of healthcare
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