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Editor's blog Tuesday 9th March 2010: A Panoramic view, cupboard love and NFR's biscuit contraception

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03/09/2010 - 14:09

Hello. Last night's BBC Panorama had got themselves a real-life whistleblowing consultant, Milton Pena of Tameside Hospital. It was fascinating that one spur to Pena's doing the unthinkable - telling the outside world that bad care is going on - was, in his words, "seeing people treated without dignity".

Tameside will be in the shit today. And it would appear, quite deservedly so.

Editor's blog Monday 8th March 2010: New dodgy data row; Burnham BS "preferred provider"; Telegraph's Mrs Mertonesqe NHS debate

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03/08/2010 - 16:48

Good day, I hope this finds you well.

You should go first to our latest instalment of The Maynard Doctrine, in which the good Professor fetters out the pearls from a goldmine (he mixes his own metaphors) from a report by the Commons Health Select Committee. It's very good.

Editor's blog Sunday 7th March 2010: Sunday Times has leaks of US reports on NHS

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03/07/2010 - 10:20

It would seem that Lord Darzi commissioned three reports from US research organisations - IHI, Joint Commission International and Rand - into the NHS care in early 2008.

You'll find the story here.

Editor's blog Friday 5th March 2010: Primary care and emergency departments report

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03/05/2010 - 17:11

Hello. Today sees the release of a new report from the Primary Care Foundation. (COI declaration - I've previously written up a couple of conferences for one of the Foundation's directors.)

Primary care and emergency departments is a title sure to grab plenty of attention, given the rising tide of A&E attendances and its financial impact on PCTs.

Editor’s blog Thursday 4 March 2010: SHAs - ten to four, and some thoughts about the NHS untermarket

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03/04/2010 - 15:15

Ten to four SHAs is the latest rumour, chaps. North, Midlands, South-West and South-East, is what they are apparently discussing.

What is the point here? Strategic health authorities have always been mis-named: they are not strategic. They have a degree of authority, vired from The Richmond House, 79 Whitehall (proprietors: Centralising Caped Crusader Sir David Nicholson and Boy Wonder Andy Burnhoid; licensed vendors of visions to gentlemen and their sons), but they are effectively the intermediate arm of the centre.

Editor’s blog Thursday 4 March 2010: DH intervenes to prevent CCP ruling over propriety of “NHS preferred provider” policy

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03/04/2010 - 11:09

It’s a good thing David Nicholson really meant it when he told PCTs to “look out to your communities, not up to Whitehall”.

Isn’t it?

You may have seen yesterday that I wrote about the delayed publication of the Co-operation and Competition Panel’s Stage One review of the complaint against NHS Great Weymouth and Waveney, brought by ACEVO and the NHS Partners Network (part of the NHS Confederation).

Editor's blog Tuesday 2 March 2010: Sum foolish things

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03/02/2010 - 22:21

Oh for fuck's sake.

For.

Fuck's .

Sake.

Here we go again: basic health budget maths
Alright. There are 152 PCTs in England. Their average budget is half a billion pounds each. Yes, it's a generalisation, but it works.

And the above story wants us to get worked up over "the analysis, which used figures from the public board meetings of 100 trusts, shows the health service overspend this year is more than £130 miliion".

Small change on a big budgets

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