Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Has the DH stitched up Total Place?
Total Place - what a laugh, eh?
Like Tony Blair, it was the future once.
Then pre-coalition, senior Tories were
Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Institute for Fiscal Studies on the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is the Judi Dench of public policy - a
universally-admired, 24-carat National Treasure.
What it
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Five thoughts about today's CSR
1. No surprises on funding; either that the protected real-terms funding promise
was kept, or that at 0.1% annually
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Extracts from Chancellor George Osborne's speech to Parliament on the CSR
"I believe the public sector needs to change to support the aspirations and
expectations of today’s population, rather
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: CSR - the facts and the figures
The Treasury CSR document is here
[http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sr2010_completereport.pdf].
The DH summary document is here
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Sir David Nicholson's 'Dear Comrades' letter about the CSR
20 October 2010
To: NHS Chairs, Chief Executives and Directors of Finance
Copied to: Local Authority Chief Executives, Regional Directors
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: The economics of cuts
Last week, the iridescent Professor John Appleby, chief economist of the Kings
Fund, wrote this excellent ten-point checklist about the
Editor's blog Tuesday 19 October 2010: The late Equity And Excellence legislation?
Here we sit, in a very short-lived PCT (standing for pre-CSR tension).
Which I will illuminate with a story from
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: Signal, noise, distortion - FT research shows private sector not yet better or cheaper
Scanning the early editions, I found this piece by Nick Timmins in the FT
[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: Revalidation - once more unto the breech position
Here we go again, again.
Another attempt at getting revalidation of doctors off the ground is hoping to
fly by
