Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Defining quality for general practice in the post-White Paper NHS
The management thinker Russell Ackoff famously wrote, "'quality' is a term so
vague as to be practically
Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Battleground NHS and the wary privates
So, what have we learned in recent days?
On Saturday, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC Radio 4 Today
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Editor's blog Saturday 9 October 2010: Extract from Professor Steve Field's valedictory RCGP speech
Extracts from Professor Steve Field's (edited) speech to the Royal College of
General Practitioners follow below.
Key quotes:
Editor's blog Friday 8 October 2010: John Healey MP Labour's new shadow health secretary
John Healey [http://www.johnhealeymp.co.uk/], MP for Wentworth and Dearne since
Tony Blair's 1997 landslide, is
Editor's blog Thursday 7 October 2010: Cake-and-eat-it comfort for Lansley over BBC survey of GP attitudes to White Paper
Listening to the BBC Radio 4 PM coverage of this survey of GPs' attitudes
towards commissioning [http://www.bbc.
Editor's blog Thursday 7 October 2010: The First Law Of Holes - stop digging
The First Law Of Holes is that when you find you're in one, you really should
stop digging.
Editor's blog Wednesday 6 October 2010: The Canned Heat politics of PM David Cameron
"Let's work together in the national interest" was the final phrase in PM David
Cameron'
Editor's blog Wednesday 6 October 2010: Cameron live tweets, and the conundra of reform
I'll be tweeting from PM David Cameron's speech at www.twitter.com/HPIAndyCowper
Do pop in
Editor's blog Tuesday 5 October 2010: Where's the new NHS money coming from?
Party conference = spending announcements. This is, after all, the sacred NHS.
The announcement of new money for healthcare always seems
Editor's blog Tuesday 5 October 2010: Here comes the social care crisis
Pulse [http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk] and Channel 4 News haver collaborated on
this story about cuts to nursing budgets
