Editor's blog Wednesday 10 November 2010: Netcare South Africa admits illegal kidney transplants 2001-3 in plea bargain
David Smith of The Guardianreports that Netcare KwaZulu has admitted in a plea
bargain to having received receiving 3.8
Editor's blog Wednesday 10 November 2010: David Nicholson's Quality Board letter to Liberatin' Lansley, and what it means
This letter from Nicholson to Lansley
[http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_
Editor's blog Wednesday 10 November 2010: Public services: never knowingly undersold
It has been quite clear now for some time that whatever your question in public
sector policy, the answer is
Editor's blog Tuesday 9 November 2010: What is Francis II going to do?
Yesterday was the opening day of “>the promised
[”http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/552<br] Francis Inquiry
Editor's blog Monday 8 November 2010: Wellards conference quotes - White Paper reforms, NICE work and known unknowns
Last Wednesday saw the third Wellards annual conference. I went along.
It's an interesting event: Wellards provide information
Editor's blog Monday 8 November 2010: The virtues of transparency from the Coalition Government
There is a nice line in one episode of Yes Minister about a paper on 'Open
Government' -
The Maynard Doctrine: Conservative Radicals with socialist hearts - whatever next?
Professor Alan Maynard fully supports the decision to reduce the tariff premiums
paid to childrens’ and other specialist hospitals, but
Editor's blog Friday 5 November 2010: EXCLUSIVE - DH cancer czar: national cancer drugs fund not best use of £200 million
The cultural logic is appropriate that in an NHS broadly run along Soviet (if
not Stalinist) lines of centralised command-and
Editor's blog Thursday 4 November 2010: Earl Howe fails to answer the real questions on NICE's future
Thank you to Dave West of Health Service Journal for drawing attention on
Twitter to Earl Howe's answers
Editor's blog Wednesday 3 November 2010: A NICE surprise
The email below, sent by NICE chief executive Sir Andrew Dillon to NICE
committee members, reveals clearly that the government&
