Editor's Blog

Oct
14

Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Global Britnell; NHS Alliance play Macbeth; and RTT waits creep up a little

Congratulations to Mark Britnell of KPMG, who in the best tradition of all things world-class, has now gone global. He
4 min read
Oct
13

Editor's blog Wednesday 13 October 2010: The NHS Information Centre thinks it's the Department of Health

Regular HPI readers will remember my previous exclusives revealing the sale of the NHS Information Centre’s share in commercial
6 min read
Oct
12

Editor's blog Tuesday 5 October 2010: Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's Conservative Party conference speech, translated

Andrew Lansley's speech to the Conservative Party Conference [http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2010/10/Andrew_Lansley_
10 min read
Oct
12

Guest editorial Tuesday 12 October 2010: Liberation from the Empire – the Local Government Association take on the White Paper

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks at the bid by the Local Government Association’s bid for a
3 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: NHS Confederation response to White Paper - aims supported, means queried

The NHS Confederation's . [http://www.nhsconfed.org/OurWork/latestnews/Pages/NHS-Confederation-calls-action-health-reforms.aspx>response to the White Paper
6 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: NHS Confederation suspends FT Network director Sue Slipman

The NHS Confederation has confirmed that Sue Slipman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Slipman], the director of their foundation
1 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Green's review of government procurement

After a day of hearing about how "shocking" it all was (Mary Whitehouse would be proud), Sir Philip
2 min read
Oct
11

Guest editorial Monday 11 October 2010: Forcing through change doesn’t work

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks at federation (because nobody else is). The recent editorial in the HSJ
3 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Defining quality for general practice in the post-White Paper NHS

The management thinker Russell Ackoff famously wrote, "'quality' is a term so vague as to be practically
2 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Battleground NHS and the wary privates

So, what have we learned in recent days? On Saturday, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told BBC Radio 4 Today [”http:
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