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
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: Labour's shadow health team confirmed
I'm pretty sure HSJ had the names last week, but the portfolios have been
released this afternoon.
Unsurprisingly,
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: An interesting update: £2 billion for social care?
BBC News' Laura Kunessberg reports an anonymous briefing that an extra £2
billion funding for adult social care will
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: DH consultations on choice and the information revolution
The Department of Health's rather belated consultations on patient choice
[http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: The unreal and real challenges facing the NHS
It's interesting to see that the two centre-left 'broadsheet' newspapers start
the week of the Comprehensive
The Maynard Doctrine: Out of chaos comes what?
Professor Alan Maynard sees covert entrepreneurialism emerging and wonders about
the opportunity costs of Mr Lansley’s liberation
Despite the
