Editor's blog Friday 22 October 2010: The economics of the madhouse - Treasury pinches £5.5 billion accumulated NHS surplus
Good afternoon to you, on a Friday of economic madness.
Health Service Journal's Sally Gainsbury has found out
The Maynard Doctrine: The Con-‘em Coalition and the management of hospitals
Professor Alan Maynard describes how the ‘two divisions’ running hospitals must
collaborate for the NHS to survive austerity
The Con-‘
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Dorrell quizzes Lansley on NHS Direct / 111 service plans
Former health secretary and health select committee chair Stephen Dorrell MP is
doing a very good job.
Andrew 'Liberatin&
Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Shadow health secretary John Healey accuses Lansley of "breaking your NHS promises"
Labour's shadow health secretary John Healey MP lost little time getting stuck
into Liberatin' Andrew Lansley over
Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Has the DH stitched up Total Place?
Total Place - what a laugh, eh?
Like Tony Blair, it was the future once.
Then pre-coalition, senior Tories were
Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Institute for Fiscal Studies on the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is the Judi Dench of public policy - a
universally-admired, 24-carat National Treasure.
What it
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Five thoughts about today's CSR
1. No surprises on funding; either that the protected real-terms funding promise
was kept, or that at 0.1% annually
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Extracts from Chancellor George Osborne's speech to Parliament on the CSR
"I believe the public sector needs to change to support the aspirations and
expectations of today’s population, rather
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: CSR - the facts and the figures
The Treasury CSR document is here
[http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sr2010_completereport.pdf].
The DH summary document is here
Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Sir David Nicholson's 'Dear Comrades' letter about the CSR
20 October 2010
To: NHS Chairs, Chief Executives and Directors of Finance
Copied to: Local Authority Chief Executives, Regional Directors