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 easy to
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
Editor's blog Thursday 9 July 2009: NHS Tayside's £3 million deal with Netcare - marring academic freedom, or talking Pollocks?
Not everybody likes Professor Allyson Pollock's analysis of the involvement of
the commercial sector in the NHS. Professor
Editor's blog Wednesday 8 July: health in recessions, and Alain Enthoven on US health reforms
Those of you with longer memories will recall that I wrote about US economist
Dr
Christopher Ruhm's work
Editor's blog Wednesday 8 July: The Cable guy
Good morning to you. Today's post relates to heath policy tangentially, through
the medium of economics; specifically, the
Editor's blog Tuesday 7 July 2009: Simon Stevens on commissioning; and the combustibility of quangos
Hello. Today we have a new interview with Simon Stevens
[http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/318], conducted at the
Editor’s blog Thursday 2 July 2009: Why Andrew Lansley won’t be the next health secretary
Hello. You will probably have already seen the row over Sally Gainsbury of
Health Service Journal’s reporting of what
Editor's blog Wednesday 1 July 2009: an interesting idea from Lord Darzi - budgets for clinical teams
Here [http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jul/01/doctors-control-budgets] is
an interesting idea from Health Minister Lord Darzi,