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Jan
17

Editorial Wednesday 16 January 2018: The past is a foreign country: for Boris Johnson, the truth is too

L P Hartley's 'The Go-Between' opens with the magnificent line "The past is a foreign
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Jan
05

Editorial Thursday 4 January 2018: The Conquest of the NHS is in full swing

The historian Robert Conquest is famous for his 'three laws of politics' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_
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Nov
23

Editorial Monday 21 March 2016: NHS funding, Schrödinger's cash and refuting the gravity of Laws

Not only has Mark Britnell written a book [http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Search-Perfect-Health-System/dp/1137496614], so too has the
6 min read
Nov
22

Editorial Wednesday 22 November 2017: A Budget to short-change the NHS

Budget Day rolls around fast: this year, the cacophony of requests for more funding for the NHS has been almost
3 min read
Nov
08

Editorial Wednesday 8 November 2017: Spreadsheet Phil will have to choose between the bus and the bust

Fireworks Night was three days ago, but you wouldn't know it from NHS Commissioning Board boss Simon Stevens&
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Oct
27

Guest editorial Thursday 26 October 2017: Why the NHS should be run by a US sports league, by CCG Cassander

Twitter legend CCG Cassander [https://twitter.com/CCGCassander] has welcomed me back to Health Policy Insight duties with this guest
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Oct
26

Editorial Thursday 26 October 2017: The floodgates are opening

Hello. I've been a bit busy of late, so as a thing that doesn't earn me
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Oct
09

The Maynard Doctrine - The NHS regulatory hogwash

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard asks what regulation is actually delivering Public and private sector regulatory schizophrenia There are two
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Aug
24

The Maynard Doctrine: Jeremy Hunt’s report card

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard offers an August examination result on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s tenure Jeremy Hunt has
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Jul
31

The Maynard Doctrine: The shrinking of the state: permanent or transitory?

Amidst Brexit and the plethora of Government initiatives following May's  June General Election, there is ambiguity about whether
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