Guest editorial Tuesday 12 October 2010: Liberation from the Empire – the Local Government Association take on the White Paper
Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks at the bid by the Local
Government Association’s bid for a
Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: NHS Confederation response to White Paper - aims supported, means queried
The NHS Confederation's .
[http://www.nhsconfed.org/OurWork/latestnews/Pages/NHS-Confederation-calls-action-health-reforms.aspx>response
to the White Paper
Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: NHS Confederation suspends FT Network director Sue Slipman
The NHS Confederation has confirmed that Sue Slipman
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Slipman], the director of their foundation
Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Green's review of government procurement
After a day of hearing about how "shocking" it all was (Mary Whitehouse would be
proud), Sir Philip
Guest editorial Monday 11 October 2010: Forcing through change doesn’t work
Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks at federation (because
nobody else is).
The recent editorial in the HSJ
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
[”http:
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.
