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Editor's Blog
Editor's Blog
The Editor's daily bulletin, by Andy Cowper
Editor's blog Friday 12th March 2010: Hey, big pensions! NAO, NAO, NAO!12/03/10
Editor's blog Thursday 11th March 2010: NHS Confed rise to challenge of dismal debate on NHS austerity and reforms11/03/10
Editor's blog Wednesday 10th March 2010: Mid-Staffs legals; and better Telegraph debate10/03/10
Editor's blog Tuesday 9th March 2010: A Panoramic view, cupboard love and NFR's biscuit contraception09/03/10
Editor's blog Monday 8th March 2010: New dodgy data row; Burnham BS "preferred provider"; Telegraph's Mrs Mertonesqe NHS debate08/03/10
Editor's blog Sunday 7th March 2010: Sunday Times has leaks of US reports on NHS07/03/10
Editor's blog Friday 5th March 2010: Here come the cuts (allegedly)05/03/10
Editor's blog Friday 5th March 2010: Primary care and emergency departments report05/03/10
Editor’s blog Thursday 4 March 2010: SHAs - ten to four, and some thoughts about the NHS untermarket04/03/10
Editor’s blog Thursday 4 March 2010: DH intervenes to prevent CCP ruling over propriety of “NHS preferred provider” policy04/03/10
Editor's blog Wednesday 3 March 2010: Bad journalism, the Virgin hokey-cokey, and the late Co-operation and Competition Panel03/03/10
Editor's blog Tuesday 2 March 2010: Sum foolish things02/03/10
Editor's blog Monday 1 March 2010: Civitas report on markets in healthcare01/03/10
Editor's blog Friday 26 February 2010: Why regulating managers is a redundant idea26/02/10
Editor's blog Thursday 25 February 2010: On hybrid organisations26/02/10
Regular Columns
Regular Columns
First Thoughts... Last Thoughts
Nick Timmins: First Thoughts... Last Thoughts17/06/08
The Maynard Doctrine
The Maynard Doctrine: pre-electoral questions about NHS spending08/03/10
The Maynard Doctrine: Saving money to save the NHS15/02/10
The Maynard Doctrine : Time to reform Clinical Excellence Awards!01/02/10
The Maynard Doctrine: The party’s over …02/01/10
The Maynard Doctrine - Conservative health policies: signs of confusion?27/11/09
The Maynard Doctrine: The faithful following the foolish - blundering on into parsimony23/11/09
The Maynard Doctrine: QIPP - the sound of panic, or a belated vital sign of intelligent life?30/10/09
The Maynard Doctrine: How do you encourage a crab?05/10/09
The Maynard Doctrine: Making people healthier - time to use the price mechanism?01/09/09
The Maynard Doctrine: Limey lessons for America on healthcare reform24/08/09
The Maynard Doctrine: Squeezing the public sector – progressive pain on pay28/07/09
The Maynard Doctrine: If and when the Tories win, what happens to the NHS?30/06/09
The Maynard Doctrine: NICE problems to have?22/06/09
The Maynard Doctrine: Time to think the unthinkable about the future of the NHS?26/05/09
The Maynard Doctrine: a Conservative Party memo on modest proposals for NHS reform?18/05/09
Health Policy Today
A daily teatime summary, analysing the day's debate, by Tom Smith
Health Policy Today: Obama’s political prose puts the wheels back on health reform and lead in the pencil of House legislators 10/09/09
David Cameron, NHS ladies' man: Health Policy Today 28 July 200928/07/09
An A-Z of US healthcare politics: Health Policy Today 25 July 200924/07/09
Make tough choices? They won't even write them down. Health Policy Today, 9 July 200909/07/09
Back to Griffiths and management basics - manage the money, manage the medics: Health Policy Today 9 June 200909/06/09
To laugh or cry about 'iGP' proposals? Health Policy Today 12th March 2009.10/03/09
Amid a snowy backdrop, moves afoot to whiten rules and procedures: Health Policy Today 2nd February 200902/02/09
Giving it some attitude: feedback for health policy from 2009 British Social Attitudes report - Health Policy Today,30th January30/01/09
Obama's health reform plans to cover the unemployed begin now – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200921/01/09
Constructing routines to better support teams – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200919/01/09
2009: when economics and politics collide – Health Policy Today, 11 January 200912/01/09
Does the appointment of Tom Daschle as health secretary points to a NICER USA? Health Policy Today, 25th November 200825/11/08
We’ve only just begun: the debate about the impact of ‘top ups’ in the NHS – Health Policy Today, 10 November 200810/11/08
Reaching out to the insurance 'untouchables': health in the US election - Health Policy Today, 29 October 2008 29/10/08
Public tired of NHS managerial vision sessions - Health Policy Today, 29th October 200828/10/08
Features
Features
Dr Michael Dixon speech to NHS Alliance conference 200920/10/09
‘Looking ahead to 2010/11: healthcare beyond the next general election’ - the 2009 Wellards Annual Conference14/10/09
Bob Sang - Health gain: the true test of quality for 21st century healthcare10/06/09
Breaking down tribal barriers: the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT commissioning collaboration with Tribal PLC (part 1 of 4)09/06/09
Coles to a new castle: Patrick Carter, chair of the new NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel16/09/08
Tax breaks for health? Policy update from the 2008 Lib Dem party conference15/09/08
Kings Fund debate 11 September 2008. What is fair – should patients be allowed to top up their care?11/09/08
Reforming the funding? It's an (in)sure thing09/09/08
Feature 21 July 2008 - Charles Clarke KPMG discussion paper discussed21/07/08
A gentlemen’s agreement, or a gentleman’s excuse-me?03/07/08
What’s your take-up on technology?26/06/08
Colloquia
Colloquia 31 July 2008: new ways of incentivising clinical performance31/07/08
Colloquia: markets and choice in healthcare14/07/08
Colloquia: ministering to clinical priorities, or political ones?07/07/08
Colloquia: talking about Darzi29/06/08
Interviews
Interview - Dr Bill Moyes, executive chair, Monitor13/01/10
Interview - Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance16/10/09
Simon Stevens interview: on NHS commissioning, contestability and clinical engagement07/07/09
Interview - Matthew Swindells, MD for health, Tribal Group PLC05/02/09
Interview - Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance15/10/08
Interview - Mike Farrar, chief executive, NHS North West: clinical input and measuring outcomes28/06/08
Interview - Norman Lamb MP on the Lib Dems' new health policies16/06/08