Editor's Blog

Nov
03

Editor's blog Friday 28 August 2009: Recessionomics - the cost and price of the shift in the politics of public spending

From the silly season’s decline and fall, we are warming up to the party conference season. On Tuesday, The
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Nov
03

Editor's blog Thursday 10 September 2009: US healthcare reform bill; much ado about McKinseys and the steady hand of the Bill

Hello. I’ve been away finishing up a stint editing a journal about continence. Insert your own joke here. I’
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Monday 21 September 2009: “you’re number 37 – have a look”

Two posts today: this, the first, is about the US health reform agenda (the next will be on the Lib
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Monday 21 September 2009: Liberal Democrat health policy, and sympathy for Ms Hewitt

Sometimes, people smile superciliously at me for taking the Liberal Democrats’ health policy seriously. That’s okay, of course. A
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Nov
03

Editor's blog Tuesday 29th September 2009: Labour Conference 2009 - go back to your constituencies and prepare for opposition

Footage on TV of the Labour Party conference in Brighton has had a haunted and almost surreal air. Where once
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Nov
03

Editor's blog Monday 5 October 2009: The deep freeze

There is a lovely old Lancashire phrase that I learned at my Gran's knee - 'don'
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Tuesday 6 October 2009: The Right way to run the NHS

I wanted to wait until shadow chancellor George Osborne had spoken before writing anything about Andrew Lansley’s speech to
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Monday 19 October 2009: Bill Moyes - next stop, the FSA?

Bill Moyes has had a good war as executive chair of independent foundation trust regulator Monitor, a job he will
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Thursday 24 September 2009: is PbR a fitting payment system for the recessionomics of health?

This morning’s policy seminar at the NHS Confederation, ‘From payment for activity to payment for transformation- is PbR fit
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Nov
03

Editor’s blog Friday 30 October 2009: New Maynard Doctrine, and a government addicted to stupid drug rulings

Hello. We have a fresh shot of Maynard Doctrine [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/383] for you today. We
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