Editorial Wednesday 30 January 2013: Why NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is the new Justin Timberlake
NHS Comrade In Chief Sir David Nicholson outed himself as a one-man Salt 'n'
Pepa [http://www.youtube.
Editorial Tuesday 29 January 2013: Lord Owen's googly and Coalition unity
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the Parliamentary water, a big
beast resurfaces.
Lord David
Editorial Monday 28 January 2013: The clinical confusion and democratic deficit in healthcare reconfiguration
On Saturday, I saw that Enfield North MP Nick de Bois (a Conservative) had
published an open letter on his
The Maynard Doctrine: Why are managers so dumb?
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard queries why healthcare managers appear
unwilling or unable to learn from history and evidence.
Non-clinical
Editorial Thursday 24 January 2013: Text of Andy Burnham's speech at Labour health policy review launch, Kings Fund
From the Labour Party website
[http://www.labour.org.uk/andy-burnhams-speech-to-the-kings-fund-whole-person-care,2013-01-24]
'Whole-Person Care' A One Nation approach
Editorial Thursday 24 January 2013: Before thoughts on Labour's health policy review launch
The Mascara Kid, also known as Labour’s shadow health secretary Andy Burnham,
will give details of his party’s
Editorial Tuesday 15 January 2013: Fixing low nurse staffing with the old 'one-two'
There has been considerable debate about nurse staffing levels, with the
Telegraph story from the weekend drawing together CQC assessments
Editorial Wednesday 9 January 2013: A modest proposal following the Health Select Committee's new CQC report
The Health Select Committee's new report on the Care Quality Commission
[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/
Editorial Tuesday 8 January 2013: Football's the winner at Mid-Staffs, circa 2009
Reading through the Mid Staffs Public Inquiry's leading council Tom Kark's
summing up
[http://www.midstaffspublicinquiry.
Editorial Thursday 15 November 2012: Notes on a Comrade
In the finest tradition of Russian Matryoshka dolls
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll], NHS Commissioning Board chief
executive