Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: RIP Claire Rayner, a patient champion
The Guardiancarries the sad news of the death of former nurse, midwife, agony
aunt and patient movement champion Claire Rayner
Editor’s blog Monday 20 September 2010: Cuts, nuts and sledgehammers
Good morning. Welcome to another week of health policy mayhem.
Cuts in public services – what the state does nationally and
Editorial Friday 9 October 2015: NHS in 'on course for widely predicted £2 billion overspend' shock
Monitor [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1610>Whoever could have
predicted it</a>? Data just released
Editorial Tuesday 2 February 2016: What do we do if the goodwill runs out before the money?
Dogs bark. Bears shit in the woods. And hogs whimper at some system leaders’
silliness as the money doesn’t
The Maynard Doctrine: How is Sir Galahad doing? A termly report
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard runs the rule over the Stevens regime
Who would want Simon Steven’s job? One
Editor's blog Friday 8 October 2010: Integrating care – what Leutz can teach Lansley
Health Service Journal editor Alastair McLellan tweets that Health Secretary
Andrew Lansley told an event at his party conference this
The Maynard Doctrine: Management needs measurement: time for the NHS to do better
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard says that NHS activity and performance
measurement need to improve significantly.
The NHS has three
Editorial Tuesday 12 January 2016: Why a cross-party health and care funding commission probably won't happen or work
NHS funding arguments fall into three broad categories. In ascending order of
usefulness, these are: how to fund; how much
Editorial Wednesday 13 January 2016: On negotiating
Fingers crossed, yesterday's non-emergency junior doctors' strike has apparently
passed without significant incident. There has clearly been
Editorial Tuesday 10 November 2015: The punishment beatings will continue until morale improves
There is a bitter symmetry between the incidence and the prevalence of the
punishment beating in NHS culture.
The first
