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Nov
25

Editorial Friday 25 November 2016: Top trolling, Team Brexit!

Just when you thought this week couldn't get any sillier [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1669], Team
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Nov
24

Editorial Thursday 24 November 2016: Five thoughts about yesterday

1. Social care got less than nothing Not only were the sector-wide representations that social care needed more funding ignored
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Nov
23

Editorial Thursday 17 May 2012: Paying a quick trip to the real world, before chilling in a safe space with Andrew Lansley

The other day, I wrote about the Risk Register melodrama [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1374], and touched on
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Nov
02

The Maynard Doctrine: How to fund the NHS - zombie policies rise yet again

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard would much rather not have to write this article again, but evidently it's
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Oct
28

Editorial Monday 14 July 2014: A modest proposal on NHS and public sector funding

'Pecs Dance' [http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/finance/minister-dismisses-warning-of-imminent-nhs-funding-crisis/5072886.article>This denial of an imminent
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Oct
18

Editorial Sunday 16 October 2016: The Incredible Shrinking Imperial Phase and "the NHS's own plans for itself"

The Imperial Phase in 10 Downing Street just keeps getting shorter. Tony Blair's lasted just over a Parliament
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Oct
17

Editorial Saturday 15 October 2016: The bed of nails, leaking from the top and sucking it up

In the world of health policy, life imitates art: the first time as tragedy, the second time as Yes, Minister
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Oct
15

Editorial Monday 12 September 2016: Interview - Simon Stevens, chief executive, NHS England

Health Policy Insight: Do you agree that hospital A&Es are currently under real pressure? Simon Stevens: Definitely. The
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Sep
26

Editorial Friday 23 September 2016: The Two-Year Forward View - STPs, the exam question and playing 'Chicken'

HPI readers with elephantine memories will remember that there was a time before NHS England's boss was Sun
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Sep
21

The Maynard Doctrine: What efficiency is

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard teaches Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt a little about efficiency. What is efficiency? On September 11th,
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