Editor's Blog

Jul
10

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
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Jul
10

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:
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Jul
10

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
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Jul
10

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
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Jul
09

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
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Jul
08

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
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Jul
08

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
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Jul
07

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
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Jul
03

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
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Jul
02

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,
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