Editor's blog Thursday 10 February 2011: Worst-kept secret in the NHS no longer secret - FTN splits from Confed
Health Service Journalbreaks the news that the worst-kept secret in the NHS has
come to pass: the Foundation Trust Network
Editor's blog Wednesday 9 February 2011: Commons committee transcripts
Your can find the Health And Social Care Bill committee transcripts of
yesterday's morning
[http://www.publications.parliament.
Editor's blog Tuesday 8 February 2011: SOS Lansley defends his reforms; we analyse his points
Goodness me. SOS Lansley is defending his reforms in The Guardian
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2011/feb/
Editor's blog Tuesday 8 February 2011: BMJ readers' poll offers cold comfort on confidence in reform
Online opinion polls are often, let's be frank, pretty bogus. Tiny samples and
deliberately contentious issues.
One has
Guest editorial Sunday 23 January 2011: A closer eye on HealthWatch
Today's guest editorial comes from the author of the excellent Arbitary Constant
[http://www.arbitraryconstant.co.uk] blog,
Editor's blog Tuesday 8 February 2011: Reducing hypertension by correcting SOS Lansley
Health Policy Insight is not produced by people who are clinically expert, to
put it mildly.
However, when a reader
Editor's blog Tuesday 8 February 2011: Sir David Nicholson evidence to Bill committee - rough transcript
David Nicholson - Uncorrected rough transcript, Health & Social Care Bill
committee (whose online feed is here
[http://www.parliamentlive.
Editor's blog Monday 7 February 2011: EXCLUSIVE - DH revises its PCT clustering guidance without notification
I'm indebted to my friend Dr Phil Hammond [http://www.drphilhammond.com/], and
to a correspondent of Phil&
Editor's blog Friday 4 February 2011: Health stuff from PMQs
The health questions from this week's Prime Minister's Questions
[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/
Guest editorial Friday 4 February 2011: The risks of market Stalinism
Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association suggests that NHS healthcare
commissioning and market Stalinism are inimical bedfellows.
The enthusiasm