Editor's blog Friday 24 December 2010: 'Efficiency, efficiency, at which none can be matched''
It's very tempting to refract all of NHSland and health policy through
children's television.
There are
Editor's blog Wednesday 22 December 2010: DH cancer czar - Cancer Drugs Fund "extremely unlikely" to alter survival difference
Regular readers know our views on the Government's absolutely discriminatory,
NICE-undermining National Cancer Drugs Fund: not only
Editor’s blog Monday 20 December 2010: NHS competition on price - will Monitor take SoS Lansley to judicial review?
The big one in the 2010-11 NHS Operating Framework is the announcement of
competition on price, with tariff as
Editor’s blog Thursday 16 December 2010: FTs really are losing powers
TAXPAYER INVESTMENT IN FTs (6.24-6.28) – “The Government currently holds an
investment stake of £24 billion in foundation
Editor’s blog Thursday 16 December 2010: NHS Commissioning Board to run or sub-contract consortia not ready by April 2013
Are we going to get a remedial Commissioning Development Agency, to go alongside
the Provider Development Agency for non-FTs?
Editor’s blog Thursday 16 December 2010: The powers of the Secretary Of State over the NHS - to direct it wholly in emergencies
There is some fascinating stuff in the various documents - for now, just have a
think about this, from the consultation
Editor’s blog Wednesday 15 December 2010: Today's documents
Liberating The NHS: Legislative Framework And Next Steps
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Guest editorial Wednesday 15 December 2010: John Appleby on PCT allocations for 2010-11: disappearingly small rises
The iridescent Professor John Appleby is the chief economist of the Kings Fund.
In this guest blog, he peers intently
Editor’s blog Wednesday 15 December 2010: Super Wednesday and political noise
Policy-wise, today’s announcements could be among the most politically
significant for the NHS since a certain third party
Guest editorial Tuesday 14 December 2010: Sympathy for LaLa?
Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association argues, tongue firmly in cheek,
that we should be a little slower to