Editor's Blog

Aug
23

Guest editorial Monday 23 August 2010: Sympathy for the devil?

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks with sympathy at the roles and uses of NHS managers and management
3 min read
Aug
20

Editor’s blog Friday 20 August 2010: Review of NHS consultants' bonuses

Clearly there are not enough reviews under way: the DH has announced another, and significant one, on the Clinical Excellence
3 min read
Aug
20

Editor’s blog Friday 20 August 2010: Do GPs care much about the White Paper and commissioning?

Not if the fact there were only 300 responses to a survey by the GP freesheet is anything to go
Aug
20

Editor’s blog Friday 20 August 2010: Management consultants and drugs

In the new world of the White Paper, local government is to have a significantly extended say in healthcare and
1 min read
Aug
19

Editor’s blog Thursday 19 August 2010: Has Lansley changed his mind on PFI?

I missed this recent Guardian editorial on PFI [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/16/editorial-pfi-economic-policy] , but certainly
1 min read
Aug
19

Editor’s blog Wednesday 18 August 2010: Dr Foster consults, and pieces and bits

Good morning. I hope the weather is good where you are. Today we turn to an interesting press release from
3 min read
Aug
18

Editor’s blog Monday 26 April 2010: Bovvered about bonuses, and measuring up the coding creep conundrum

The Lib Dems have given their FOI stuff on managers’ bonuses to The Observer, leading to “>this not-wildly-shocking story
3 min read
Aug
18

Editor’s blog Monday 16 August 2010: Longer hospital waiting lists and higher costs, here we come!

If I'm ever sick enough to need to be admitted to hospital, I'm not going to
Aug
18

Editor’s blog Sunday 15 August 2010: Telegraphing the changes

Today's Telegraph offers three health policy-inflecting stories. The first is the return of the Quiff Of Doom, ex-Health
2 min read
Aug
17

Editor’s blog Tuesday 17 August 2010: Seeing the Light - drugs in 'don't work' shock

This article [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7950612/Five-out-of-six-new-drugs-dont-work.html] doesn't need any contextualising. Just read it