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Editorial Friday 6 July 2012: Hansard of NHS annual report to the House of Commons

Publish Date/Time: 
07/06/2012 - 08:24

From Hansard, the text of Wednesday's statement. (Thank you to all who produce Hansard: it's a jewel.)

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Editorial Wednesday 4 July 2012: IFS / Nuffield Trust report restates ongoing nature of financial crisis

Publish Date/Time: 
07/04/2012 - 09:21

When I launched Health Policy Insight in 2008, four years ago (and let's face it, you get less than four years for manslaughter these days), it seemed clear that the financial crisis was likely to screw things up for public sector spending.

It wasn't certain, but it was likely.

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Editorial Thurssday 28 June 2012: Spinning a yarn over why the Peterborough PFI blew up the money

Publish Date/Time: 
06/28/2012 - 10:53

I was intrigued by this story in the Financial Times about Peterborough and Stamford FT's PFI problem.

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Editorial Wednsday 27 June 2012: Andrew Lansley at the Commissioning Show

Publish Date/Time: 
06/27/2012 - 16:02

Mr Lansley opened his speech by mentioning a text message he received from a friend living in France during the passage of the Bill. The message quoted the philosopher Schopenhauer: "all truth is ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident".

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Editorial Tuesday 26 June 2012: Going South with the PFI - administration and politics

Publish Date/Time: 
06/26/2012 - 12:08

We reported last night on the story of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley putting South London Healthcare Trust into impending administration-type special measures.

If Health Policy Insight were less tirelessly charitable about the government of the day than we are, we might remark on what a relief it is that the old ways of top-down command-and-control are behind us.

We are not such cynics, thank goodness.

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Editorial Monday 25 June 2012: SOS Lansley sacks South London Healthcare Trust board; omnishambles to follow?

Publish Date/Time: 
06/25/2012 - 19:13

Holy shit.

We knew there was a major problem, but the FT's revelation that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator) has put South London Healthcare Trust into effective administration is a big story by anybody's lights.

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Editorial Friday 22 June 2012: Latest waiting figures show NHS performance remains strong

Publish Date/Time: 
06/22/2012 - 13:42

The NHS is doing very well indeed.

The latest referral to treatment waiting time figures released by the DH show that the progress on very long waiters continues to improve.

The the numbers on waiting list who have been waiting over 18, 26, 39 and 52 weeks are all at record lows.

Editorial Thursday 21 June 2012: Comrade Sir David Nicholson speaks (The 'No Communist Imagery' edition)

Publish Date/Time: 
06/21/2012 - 18:04

Comrade Sir David Nicholson was described as the Anneka Rice of the Health Service by chair Cathy Newman.

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Editorial Thursday 21 June 2012: Chairman Mal speaks: Malcolm Grant

Publish Date/Time: 
06/21/2012 - 10:58

Chairman Mal - Professor Malcolm Grant of the NHS Commissioning Board - opens with Cathy Newman joke about shaving his moustache off for £2000 for Comic Relief.

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Editorial Wednesday 20 June 2012: Review of Andrew Lansley's NHS Confederation speech

Publish Date/Time: 
06/20/2012 - 15:53

Andrew Lansley's speech to the NHS Confederation today was, unexpectedly, very funny.

Albeit not intentionally.

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