Aug
31
Editor’s blog Tuesday 31 August 2010: Links and a public service announcement
Hello, hope you had a good bank holiday weekend and maybe even saw some
sunshine.
I'm semi-off-duty today,
Editor's Blog
Aug
30
Editor’s blog Sunday 29 August 2010: The Bristol pathology inquiry suggests that lessons on openness are urgently needed
This report in today's Sunday Telegraph by Laura Donnelly and Patrick Sawer
reveals that University Hospitals Bristol NHS
1 min read
Aug
28
Editor’s blog Friday 27 August 2010: Goodnight NHS Direct
The Guardianreports that NHS Direct faces abolition within three years
following
the arrival of the new TDN (inevitably, three-digit number)
Aug
27
Editor’s blog Friday 27 August 2010: Audit Commission report on coding accuracy
You may already have seen the new report from the Audit Commission on the
quality of NHS PBR clinical data
1 min read
Aug
27
Editor’s blog Friday 27 August 2010: Following up the FT prudential borrowing limit abolition FOI
Hello, and happy Friday.
You may remember that I wrote previously about the surprising proposal to
abolish FTs' prudential
4 min read
Aug
25
Editor’s blog Wednesday 25 August 2010: Legal for 'unlawfully killed' David Gray's sons to call incompetent Dr Ubani incompetent
The Guardian's James Meikle and colleague report the thoroughly good and
sensible news that not only can the
1 min read
Aug
24
Editor’s blog Tuesday 24 August 2010: NICE and price
And so today, NICE is the bad guy for cancer drugs again
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11060968]. Its
1 min read
Aug
23
Editor’s blog Monday 23 August 2010: Caledonian Vitamin D ill-health hypothesis returns
This story about a hypothesis that certain kinds of ill-health including MS and
rheumatoid arthritis may be associated with Vitamin
Aug
23
Editor’s blog Monday 23 August 2010: Cameron's plenary indulgence for NHS staff, missing Scots NHS furniture and other fun
Hello. Hope you had a good weekend.
PM David Cameron suggests to The Independent that working in the NHS would
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Aug
23
Editor’s blog Sat 21 August 2010: The right question for "staggered" Lansley 0.3% of NHS budget spend on management consultants
Well done to The Guardian's social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh, who seems to
be first with the figures
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