The Maynard Doctrine: £200 million National Cancer Drugs Fund - nice price for Big Pharma; nasty for NICE
Professor Alan Maynard reviews the reasoning behind government proposals for
spending another £200 million on new cancer drugs not recommended
Editor’s blog Tueday 25 May 2010: Queen's speech - health bill section
Number 10 has now put up its notes on the Health Bill
[http://www.number10.gov.uk/queens-speech/2010/
Editor’s blog Tuesday 25 May 2010: Life imitates art with ministerial hair-shirtism
Karl Marx argued that history repeats itself
[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/History]: the "the first time as tragedy,
Editor’s blog Monday 24 May 2010: HSJ says Lansley to abolish SHAs
In a spectacular exclusive [http://www.hsj.co.uk/5015096.article] with major
policy implications, HSJ states that Health Secretary
Editor’s blog Monday 24 May 2010: Lansley's reconfiguration inspirations - Pollyanna, Pangloss and Micawber
Further to this recent post pointing out that only one of Secretary Of State
For
Health The Rt Hon Andrew
Editor’s blog Friday 21 May 2010: Lansley's four tests for NHS service changes - only one is empirically measurable
Writing in today's Daily Telegraph
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7747870/The-NHS-must-put-patients-first.
Editor’s blog Sunday 23 May 2010: DH outlines new ministers' bits
The DH has outlined the new ministers' bits
[http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Pressreleases/DH_116244].
This
Editor's blog Friday 21 May 2010: Cancer drugs, ASDA, faith and markets
This press release from Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda
[http://your.asda.com/2010/5/20/asda-announces-not-for-profit-
Editor’s blog Thursday 20 May 2010: Liberal-Conservative coalition's detailed programme for government published
You can download the PDF here
[http://programmeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk/files/2010/05/coalition-programme.pdf]
.
Just the links,
Editor’s blog Wednesday 19 May 2010: Ex-Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb is deputy to Deputy Prime Minister
Congratulations to Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb MP, who is to be Chief
Parliamentary and Political Adviser to the