Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: An interesting update: £2 billion for social care?
BBC News' Laura Kunessberg reports an anonymous briefing that an extra £2
billion funding for adult social care will
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: DH consultations on choice and the information revolution
The Department of Health's rather belated consultations on patient choice
[http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/
Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: The unreal and real challenges facing the NHS
It's interesting to see that the two centre-left 'broadsheet' newspapers start
the week of the Comprehensive
Editor's blog Sunday 17 October 2010: Scotland chooses free prescriptions over managers
Interesting times continue, as the minority SNP government in Holyrood choose
to
make prescriptions free in April 2011 by dint
Editor's blog Friday 15 October 2010: Ironic policymaking on generics
In a masterpiece of comic timing, the DH yesterday issued a statement that
mandatory generic substitution in primary care would
Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: EXCLUSIVE - Reinventing the prioritisation wheel with the DH National Quality Board
On a day when the abolition of overall government quangos is big news
[http://download.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ndpb/public-bodies-list.
Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Unison bid for White Paper judicial review fails
I predicted this on here a few times, and indeed another quarto of the Book Of
Things That Are Not
Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: The answer is 30 administrative NHS bodies in England. Now what's the question?
The answer, it seems, is thirty organisations across the English NHS.
The question is less straightforward to discern, but the
Editor’s blog Wednesday 8 September 2010: The future of management
The future of management in the NHS isn't what it used to be.
For many clinicians, this will
Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Department of Health confirms that NHS Information Centre is not part of it
I have to wonder why the NHS Information Centre appears not to be telling the
truth.
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