Editor’s blog Friday 11 June 2010: The good, the bad and the pointless from the SMF
In the new report, Axing And Taxing by the Social Market Foundation
[http://www.smf.co.uk/assets/files/Axing%
Editor’s blog Thursday 10 June 2010: Lansleyism defined: abolishing targets to bring them back
You probably could make this up, but you'd need a scriptwriter who'd taken some
pretty hefty
Editor’s blog Thursday 10 June 2010: BMA GP chair Buckman's clarion call for NHS small-c conservatism
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
The BMA's LMC conference has escaped, into the real world.
Whatever is
Editor’s blog Thursday 10 June 2010: The first waiting time target to go: 4-hour A&E “as it currently stands”
During his statement
[”http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/03.htm] on the
new Mid-Staffordshire inquiry [”http:
Editor’s blog Wednesday 9 June 2010: Lansleyism - Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's first keynote NHS speech reviewed
So what is Lansleyism?
Now that at last [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/549] the DH have
put it
The Maynard Doctrine: Evidence-based healthcare policy: please do it better!
Professor Alan Maynard OBE notes the lack of evidence for the 30-day unpaid
emergency acute readmission policy
[”http://www.healthpolicyinsight.
Editor’s blog Wednsday 9 June 2010: Francis Inquiry 2, bullying addressed, targets under fire and more hints on Lansleyism
The new DH press release reports Health Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE MP's
keeping his promise
[http://www.dh.
Editor’s blog Tuesday 8 June 2010: Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's keynote speech is finally online
The Health Secretary's widely-trailed speech is allegedly now available online
here
[http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/Detail.
Editor’s blog Tuesday 8 June 2010: The joys of unintended consequences - Lansley's new fines for 30-day acute readmissions
I think I may just be able to see an unintended consequence or two in Health
Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE
Editor’s blog Monday 7 June 2010: Five reasons to use management consultants
None of my best friends are management consultants.
But even in the aftermath of the revelation that the DH funded