Health Policy Insight
Healthcare management online analysis and intelligence
The home of UK health policy
Editor's Blog
Editor's Blog
The Editor's daily bulletin, by Andy Cowper
Editorial Friday 27 January 2012: Health Policy Intelligence 37 & 38 - 'Taking The Pith out Of the Health And Social Care Bill'27/01/12
Guest editorial Thursday 26 January 2012: Risks? What risks? Reasons not to publish and be damned.26/01/12
Editorial Wednesday 25 January 2012: 111 pilots saw 5-9% rise in unscheduled emergency hospital admissions25/01/12
Editorial Tuesday 24 January 2012: Lord Owen email to Labour raises interesting questions25/01/12
Editorial Tuesday 24 January 2012: Why Andrew Lansley is absolutely right and his opponents are completely wrong24/01/12
Editorial Monday 23 January 2012: The politics of protest23/01/12
Editorial Thursday 19 January 2012: The great ratings agency fiasco19/01/12
Editorial Wednesday 18 January 2012: Minister Who? And The Great Social Care Mystery18/01/12
Editorial Monday 16 January 2012: The sharp end of healthcare16/01/12
Editorial 31 December 2011: The Curious Incident Of The Debate That Didn't Move On31/12/11
Editorial 24 December 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 36 "Be jolly, bottom-up style" Comrade Sir David tells NHS24/12/11
Editorial Friday 23 December 2011: Goodwill to all men? Not from BMI to BUPA23/12/11
Editorial Friday 23 December 2011: Lead your CCG!23/12/11
Editorial Thursday 22 December 2011: Adam Smith, GOD, risk and failure in the Nicholson Health Service22/12/11
Editorial Tuesday 20 December 2011: No taste for accounting? Lords Constitution Committee report updated20/12/11
Regular Columns
Regular Columns
The Maynard Doctrine
The Maynard Doctrine: Clinical practice variations and improving NHS productivity: mirages or realities?03/01/12
The Maynard Doctrine: Ten NHS Commandments for 2012.07/12/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Now for some real reform, Mr Lansley31/10/11
The Maynard Doctrine: The opportunities and constraints of managing a clinical commissioning group in the new NHS10/10/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Time to abolish Payment By Results09/09/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Tackling obesity - know your enemy!31/08/11
The Maynard Doctrine: What’s the alternative to Lansley’s reforms?10/08/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Lessons from America - can we bend the cost curve?19/07/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Killing patients is wrong!13/07/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Competition and duty11/07/11
The Maynard Doctrine: After U-turns and Utopia, reality bites - fiddling while Rome burns15/06/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Changing the NHS30/05/11
The Maynard Doctrine - In The Land Of Blah, the Policy Zombies thrive! 16/05/11
The Maynard Doctrine: Snot rite!19/04/11
The Maynard Doctrine: The Ten Efficient Commissioning Commandments06/04/11
Health Policy Today
A daily teatime summary, analysing the day's debate, by Tom Smith
Health Policy Today 3rd October 2011: Labouring over late diagnosis03/10/11
Health Policy Today 26 September 2011: Responsibility for early diagnosis26/09/11
A radical, unavoidable future for the NHS, whoever wins: Health Policy Today 6 May 201006/05/10
Andy, Norman or Andrew; which Health Secretary wannabe to make omelettes without breaking eggs? Health Policy Today 22 April '1023/04/10
Obama’s political prose puts the wheels back on health reform and lead in the pencil of House legislators: Health Policy Today 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
Features
Features
Tuesday 13 July 2010: Sir David Nicholson's 'Dear colleague' letter on the White Paper changes13/07/10
Sir David Nicholson speech to NHS Confederation conference 25 June 201005/07/10
Andrew Lansley speech to NHS Confederation conference 24 June 201024/06/10
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
A gentlemen’s agreement, or a gentleman’s excuse-me?03/07/08
What’s your take-up on technology?26/06/08
Nick Timmins: Top-ups: the earth moves as the NHS's 60th anniversary approaches17/06/08
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: Andrew Taylor, NHS Co-Operation and Competition Panel18/10/11
Interview: Nick Bosanquet - Progress towards The Bosanquet Hypothesis?15/06/11
Simon Stevens interview - Making sense of the NHS reforms23/04/11
Interview - Stephen Dorrell MP, chair, Commons Health Select Committee31/03/11
Interview - Sir Robert Naylor, chief executive, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust05/07/10
Interview: Dr Peter Brambleby, director of public health, Croydon - commissioning, austerity and the new public health25/06/10
Interview: Timothy Heymann, reader in health management and consultant – a secondary care perspective on commissioning and refor24/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance - bringing clincians and mangers together to commission23/06/10
Interview: Andrew Donald – a PCT perspective on the coming of clinical commissioning21/06/10
Interview: Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive, NHS Confederation – radical reforms with commissioning, choice and innovation 18/06/10
Interview: Matt Tee, Permanent Secretary of Government Communications, Cabinet Office12/05/10
Interview - Dr Bill Moyes, executive chair, Monitor13/01/10
Interview - Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance16/10/09