Editor’s blog Tuesday 8 June 2010: Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's keynote speech is finally online
The Health Secretary's widely-trailed speech is allegedly now available online
here
[http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/Detail.
Editor’s blog Tuesday 8 June 2010: The joys of unintended consequences - Lansley's new fines for 30-day acute readmissions
I think I may just be able to see an unintended consequence or two in Health
Secretary Andrew Lansley CBE
Editor’s blog Monday 7 June 2010: Five reasons to use management consultants
None of my best friends are management consultants.
But even in the aftermath of the revelation that the DH funded
Editor’s blog Sunday 6 June 2010: GOSH! Consultants tell CE of Great Ormond Street to pack her bags
Never can an acronym have been more appropriate.
Consultants at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have given their chief
executive
Editor’s blog Friday 4 June 2010: The Department of Health spent £480,402,000 on consultants in 2009-10
That's a lot of coins
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/04/coins-database-government-spending-consultants]
.
As in Combined
Editor’s blog Friday 4 June 2010: WHO's not declared a conflict of interest, then?
An excellent piece of investigative journalism - a collaboration between the BMJ
and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism [http://thebureauinvestigates.
Editor’s blog Thursday 3 June 2010: Excellent healthcare joke
Stolen from the Popbitch [http://www.popbitch.com/home] email:
A man was rushed to hospital when a bizarre sex
Editor’s blog Wednesday 2 June 2010: PM promises to keep community hospitals open
I'm not able to access PMQs directly, but according to a man I would trust
without reservation, Michael
Editor’s blog Thursday 3 June 2010: Non-'cheerleading’ Monitor chair Bundred wants to denationalise FTs
The latest HSJ captions its front cover picture of new Monitor chair Steve
Bundred, late of the Audit Commission, with
Editor’s blog Thursday 3 June 2010: Targets or no targets?
What is the official government policy now on national NHS targets?
And are Prime Minister David Cameron and Health Secretary