Editor's blog Friday 4 February 2011: DH staff survey makes for grim if unsurprising reading
Oh dear. Previously, DH has fared not-so-well in Cabinet Office capacity and
capability reviews.
Their latest staff survey
[http://www.
Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: "Beyond Narnia" - an update from the front line
Earlier today, I was asked on Twitter (where I'm @HPIAndyCowper
[http://twitter.com/#!/HPIAndyCowper]; do say hello if
Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: Accountability matters - Nicholson and O'Brien at the PAC
The recent session of the Public Accounts Committee with NHS Supreme Soviet
Chair Sir David Nicholson and DH permanent secretary
Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Clustering arrangements for PCTs
I don't want to be unkind to whoever wrote the DH's PCT cluster implementation
guidance
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Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Commons second reading of Health and Social Care Bill
You'll already know that the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill
passed last night.
The
Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Government responds to health select committee report on commissioning
It's going to be a busy day.
The Government has published its response to the health select committee&
Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Defending NHS reform: is PM Cameron using the Royal "we", or taking the piss?
Prime Minister David Cameron spends more of his political capital on SOS
Lansley's reforms and continues his unctuous
Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Commons Library briefing elucidates Bill's changes further
I'm grateful to a reader of Health Policy Insight for giving me sight of the
House Of Commons
Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Confusing people with evidence and facts
"What I tell you three times is true" - Lewis Carroll, 'The Hunting Of the
Snark'
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