Editor’s blog Wednesday 21 July 2010: Government's confused response to Health Select Committee report on commissioning
The Health Secretary was in his element in front of the Health Select Committee
yesterday, no? Detail, detail and more
Editor’s blog Wednesday 21 July 2010: Inconvenient truths and rational analyses will out
Good morning.
Today sees a plethora of new entries into the august ledger of Things That Are
Not Surprising.
Mark
Editor’s blog Tuesday 20 July 2010: Notes from Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's first Health Select Committee appearance
This is summary, notes, emerging. Uncorrected and then some. There are going to
be a lot of typos. UPDATE: It
Editor’s blog Tuesday 20 July 2010: The Guardian prove that the Daily Mail has no monopoly on stupid health policy stories
I accept that the effectiveness of swearing is in approximately inverse
proportion to its frequency.
So I willl just say,
Editor’s blog Tuesday 20 July 2010: Dame Jo Williams' CQC chair candidacy announced by Lansley to Health Select Committee
A DH press release [http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Pressreleases/DH_117655]
reveals that Dame Jo Williams, interim
Editor’s blog Tuesday 20 July 2010: Lansley's first Health Select Committee appearance, this morning at 11 am
Good morning.
You may already have noticed that we have a fresh dispensation of Maynard
Doctrine [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/
Editor’s blog Monday 19 July 2010: Competing for business, Part Two
Evening, all.
David Brindle of The Guardian's well-spotted report of the latest private
medical insurance figures from Laing
Editor’s blog Monday 19 July 2010: BMA seeks new route to block private sector in commissioning
That's interesting
[http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/primary-care/laurence-buckmans-email-to-bma-gp-members/5017378.article]
, if not very surprising.
Health Service
The Maynard Doctrine: It’s the incentives, stupid!
Professor Alan Maynard looks at what a future based around outcome measurement
and new incentives will mean.
The Coalition’s
Editor’s blog Monday 19 July 2010: PM David Cameron on what Big Society means for the public sector
Below are two extracted sections from Prime Minister David Cameron's speech in
Liverpoool this morning
[http://www.number10.