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Editorial Monday 17 December 2012: The reconfiguration game

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12/17/2012 - 14:29

For some time, I've been meaning to write about the challenges facing provider reconfiguration.

There are a few significant ones, really.

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Editorial Tuesday 11 December 2012: Ali Parsa reaps the rewards of Circle's economic failure

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12/11/2012 - 10:00

A wry smile played around the corners of my well-chiselled features when I read Matthew Goodman's piece in The Sunday Times that Ali Parsadoust is to get a pay-off worth £400,000 from Circle, as well as £40,000 a year for his ongoing work as a non-executive director.

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The Maynard Doctrine: What the NHS Mandate misses, or ‘Another Episode Of Nero Playing His Violin Whilst The NHS Burns?’

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard suggests that the NHS mandate may have missed out most of the critical issues

Editorial Wednesday 21 November 2012: 'Red Alert' Ashcroft polling: interesting on economics; fascinating on the NHS

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11/21/2012 - 09:13

Lord Ashcroft, whose tax domiciliary status was such a political talking point in the last decade, contines to spend some of his not inconsiderable fortune on party political opinion polling. Health Policy Insight previously picked up his previous findings here and here

Editorial Friday 16 Novemeber 2012: Monitor's evidence to the Health Select Committee

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11/16/2012 - 14:09

Given Monitor's importance in the new NHS, their recent evidence session with Dr David Bennett, Adrian Masters and Stephen Hay to the Health Select Committee recently is worth reading.

Courtesy of the wonderful Hansard.

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Editorial Thursday 15 November 2012: Notes on a Comrade

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11/15/2012 - 23:23

In the finest tradition of Russian Matryoshka dolls, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Comrade Sir David Nicholson is - to borrow Churchill’s line about Russia - “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, wrapped up in perhaps the most effective politician in Whitehall.

Politics is, after all, the getting, keeping and exercising of power. On those terms, the Comrade-In-Chief has no serious rivals, and few trivial ones.

Editorial Wednesday 7 November 2012: Health Policy Intelligence 51 - I'm A Health Secretary? Get Me Out Of Here!

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11/07/2012 - 02:11

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Health Policy Intelligence Issue 51 – 6 November 2012

I’m A Health Secretary? Get Me Out Of Here!

Welcome to the latest edition of Health Policy Intelligence, the analysis and summary of the key events in policy by Health Policy Insight editor Andy Cowper.
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