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Jun
09

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.
Jun
08

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
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Jun
07

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
1 min read
Jun
06

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
1 min read
Jun
04

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
Jun
04

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.
1 min read
Jun
03

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
Jun
03

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
1 min read
Jun
03

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
1 min read
Jun
03

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
3 min read