The Maynard Doctrine: Goodbye to Joe Stalin! Hello Toyota and Total Quality Improvement, care of Comrade Darzi
Professor Alan Maynard OBE suggests that Lord Darzi is a well-intentioned
Marxist who does not really understand quality
“If
Editor's blog Thursday 15 July 2009: Daft assertions on the NHS and HCAIs from a silly Kealey
Good morning. Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham
(the UK’s only independent degree-awarding institution, where
Editor's blog Wednesday 14 July 2009: Public spending cuts ahoy, confirms Baron Foy, in 'Pope a Catholic' shock
Hurrah! Baron Mandelson of Foy
[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4932210.ece] has
confirmed that public spending
Editor's blog Monday 12 July 2009: First NHS fatality connected to swine flu; and the NICE over-ride
The NHS has suffered its first swine flu fatality
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8148162.stm]. Dr
Editor's blog Tuesday 13 July 2009: The £12,000 lottery ticket for social care; and the open-closedness of government
Good morning. The green paper on funding social care provision should be out
shortly. What has been trailed in the
Editor's blog Tuesday 13 July 2009: The pass for innovation
More details have been made available over the
[http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/Detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=
Editor's blog Thursday 9 July 2009: Money for medics and Atul Gawande on US healthcare costs
Hello. Busy day, so just a couple of quick links here: the Audit Commission and
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Editor's blog Thursday 9 July 2009: patents are a virtue
Good morning. The Independentdraws our attention to the report from the EU on
pharmaceutical industry competitiveness - or anti-competitiveness
[http:
Editor's blog Friday 10 July 2009: NHS IT - intruding on private grief
Writing about the NHS IT project feels a bit like beating a two-year-old at
chess: it's
Editor's blog Thursday 9 July 2009: WTF? Killing the wasp that stings you ...
This is a first: never before, outside of conference season, have I posted four
times in one day.
The impetus