Editor's Blog

Feb
02

Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: "Beyond Narnia" - an update from the front line

Earlier today, I was asked on Twitter (where I'm @HPIAndyCowper [http://twitter.com/#!/HPIAndyCowper]; do say hello if
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Feb
02

Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: Accountability matters - Nicholson and O'Brien at the PAC

The recent session of the Public Accounts Committee with NHS Supreme Soviet Chair Sir David Nicholson and DH permanent secretary
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Feb
01

Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Clustering arrangements for PCTs

I don't want to be unkind to whoever wrote the DH's PCT cluster implementation guidance [http:
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Feb
01

Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Commons second reading of Health and Social Care Bill

You'll already know that the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill passed last night. The
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Jan
31

Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Government responds to health select committee report on commissioning

It's going to be a busy day. The Government has published its response to the health select committee&
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Jan
31

Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Defending NHS reform: is PM Cameron using the Royal "we", or taking the piss?

Prime Minister David Cameron spends more of his political capital on SOS Lansley's reforms and continues his unctuous
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Jan
28

Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Commons Library briefing elucidates Bill's changes further

I'm grateful to a reader of Health Policy Insight for giving me sight of the House Of Commons
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Jan
28

Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Confusing people with evidence and facts

"What I tell you three times is true" - Lewis Carroll, 'The Hunting Of the Snark'
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Jan
26

Editor's blog Wednesday 26 January 2011: BMA concedes Special Representative Meeting over Health And Social Care Bill reforms

The BMA is to hold a Special Representative Meeting on Tuesday 15 March 2011 [http://www.bma.org.uk/representation/
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Jan
26

Tuesday 25 January 2011: Commons Health Questions, January 2011 edition - missed targets and Burns Night

VERDICT: Not much heat, and even less light. There were a few good questions, from Ben Bradshaw on waiting times
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