Editor's blog Friday 23 September 2011: Backfiring politics and economics - PFI, magic money, tariff and tough times
Oops.
The political strategy to attack 22 trusts' PFI debt burden adopted by Andrew
Lansley (saviour, liberator) and colleagues,
Editor's blog Wednesday 14 September 2011: Andrew Lansley speech to NHS Alliance / NAPC commissioning conference
Below is a transcript of SOS Andrew Lansley's speech this afternoon to the NHS
Alliance / NAPC commissioning conference.
Editor's blog Wednesday 21 September 2011: BMA Council backs chair Dr Hamish Meldrum
Another psalter is inscribed in The Book Of Things That Are Not Surprising, with
the news that BMA Council has
Editor's blog Wednesday 21 September 2011: The underwhelming Lib Dem conference
The good news for the Lib Dems is that they are now a party of government. You
might not think
Editor's blog Saturday 17th September 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 23/4, 'David Nicholson - wheelbarrow man or liberator?'
Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service.
The new double-issue, '‘Comrade Sir David Nicholson - the wheelbarrow
Editor's blog Wednesday 14 September 2011: CQC's "significant distortion of priorities" criticised by health select committee
The Commons health select committee continues its good work with the publication
of the reports of its first annual accountability
Editor's blog Thursday 8th September 2011: DH publishes revised Health Bill impact assessment
The DH has published the revised Health Bill impact assessment
[http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_
Editor's blog Tuesday 13 September 2011: What is happening in parts of the private sector?
This piece in today's Guardian
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/13/private-healthcare-boosted-by-nhs-rationing]
by Denis Campbell
Editor's blog Monday 12 September 2011: Chase Farm maternity & A&E - the first closure of many
As predicted by the Daily Telegraph
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8756245/Government-to-merge-Chase-Farm-Hospital-which-David-Cameron-vowed-to-save.html]
among others, Secretary Of
The Maynard Doctrine: Time to abolish Payment By Results
Health economist Professor Alan Maynard suggests that PbR has outlived its
usefulness, and that management has failed to act meaningfully
