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Aug
04

Editor's blog 9 July 2008: The human face of the co-payments policy debate

You may already have seen the moving story of NHS surgeon Gordon Matthews and his wife Sue [http://http://news.
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 14 July 2008: Bastille Day

In France, 14th July is Bastille Day - a national celebration of the eighteenth century regicide that set the country on
Aug
04

Editor's blog 15 July 2008: Gerry Robinson - zombie for self-love

Policy zombies for (self-)love The Canadian academic Robert Evans and colleagues described the existence of health policy zombies [http:
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Aug
04

Editor's blog update 21 July 08 - KPMG / Charles Clarke report reviewed

Ex-Minister Charles Clarke MP's execrable pamphlet for KPMG about health funding [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/
Aug
04

Editor's Blog 22 July 2008: Traction and drag queens

A fairly cosmopolitan friend (Cambridge graduate, former actress, former restauranteur, farmer’s wife, PhD and theatre director) once revealed a
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 24 July 2008 - Is healthcare an artisan product or an industrial one?

This afternoon, while I was tasting some wines in Meursault and Volnay, I was having 'that discussion' with
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 28 July 2008: Investing for outcomes

Good evening - good, that is, if the thunderstorm has passed you by yet, taking with it the louring humidity. The
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 31 July 2008: The curse of the drinking classes

Oscar Wilde inverted the well-known Temperance Movement slogan to produce his formulation that "work is the curse of
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 4th August 2008: Localism - easy to mouthe, but hard to swallow

Good evening. Today we have new Maynard Doctrine, looking at the issue of variation in nursing practice [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.
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Aug
04

Editor's blog 5th August 2008: loving an elevator?

Evening, all. You will find Tom Smith's latest Health Policy Today now online, reflecting on the policy and
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