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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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