The Maynard Doctrine: Who is managing the NHS workforce?
Professor Alan Maynard points out the ludicrous state of NHS workforce planning.
The Department of Health usually has to hire
Editor's blog Thursday 20 January 2011: Other oddness in the Bill: retrospective rewriting staff / property transfer contracts
A reader emails to draw my attention to the following passage in the Bill (under
para 275 Transfer schemes: supplemental
Editor's blog Thursday 20 January 2011: Consortia, body corporate status and the Health and Social Care Bill
Cabinet Office guidance on setting up a new public body
[http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/Assets/3_setting_upv2_tcm6-2481.
Editor's blog Thursday 20 January 2011: Nigel Edwards off to pastures varied
Amid all this fuss, it's easy to overlook HSJ's reporting that Nigel Edwards
will step down
Editor's blog Thursday 20 January 2011: Five things you should really know about the Health and Social Care Bill
Five things you should really know about the proposed Health and Social Care
Bill
[http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Press conference launching Health Bill (rough transcript)
Below is a rough transcript of the Q&A session from the press conference
launching the Health and Social
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Back later
Right off to the pub - no! the DH, for 30-minute read of Bill (ha ha ha) and
then press
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Sir David Varney weighs in on risks of the Health Bill reforms
The day is getting livelier already. There is a heavy police presence on
Whitehall, including riot police. I'm
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Audit Commission times its punches - Barking, Havering and Redbridge report released
I suppose if you were about to abolish me, I might unleash a sense of mischief
in my timing. The
Editor's blog Wednesday 19 January 2011: Beginnings, endings and gravity talking
Today it begins.
Today the NHS faces a fascinatingly undeveloped, electorally-unpromised and
fundamental overhaul.
Today we start the legislative move
