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Editor's blog Monday 11 April 2011: RCN figures show that front-line clinical jobs are being cut

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04/11/2011 - 08:09

The RCN Congress can be relied upon to provide a bit of entertainment every year. By and large, the basic premise is that more, better-paid nurses are needed.

They are not necessarily wrong, as this US study finds. Nurse prescribing has been evaluated as broadly safe; and nurses deliver significant amounts of chronic disease management in primary care (making good money for GPs via the QOF). Nurses' important role in appropriate workforce substitution has been know for a good while now.

Editor's blog Friday 8 April 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 2 'A pause for not-listening and telling us a love story', out now

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04/08/2011 - 07:14

Health Policy Intelligence is our new, weekly subscription-based analysis service.

The second issue, 'A pause for not-listening and telling us a love story', is now out.

Health Policy Intelligence will not be available as free content. Subscription costs £8 a month / £69 a year for an individual. Increasing discounts are available to organisations wanting to subscribe for groups of more than 5 and 10 individuals.

Editor's blog Friday 8 April 2011: The lean green DH

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04/08/2011 - 06:38

Independent deputy political editor Nigel Morris has a funny little story about the DH leading the Whitehall pack.

Just not quite in the ideal manner.

He reports, "The biggest spender on greenery is Andrew Lansley’s Department of Health, which is seeking efficiency savings of £20bn from the NHS over the next four years. It paid £12,383.30 between May 2010 and this March for plants and trees for its 'core headquarters estate'."

Editor's blog Friday 8 April 2011: Does Mr Lansley understand how competition law may apply to NHS commissioning?

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04/08/2011 - 05:25

Good morning.

I'm once again grateful to a friend of Health Policy Insight for transcribing Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley's appearance on BBC Newsnight, which appears below.

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Click here for details of 'A pause for not-listening and telling us a love story', via subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Editor's blog Thursday 7 April 2011: Those that have power to fine and will do none

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04/07/2011 - 16:56

I'm grateful to the sharp-eyed and shrewd Daily Telegraph health correspondent Martin Beckford for pointing out that Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley's note to the Health Select Committee is now online.

The text is copied below, but as Martin notes, the striking point is that Monitor's proposed ability to fine commissioners is formally gone. Monitor will of course still be able to fine trusts.

Guest editorial Thursday 7 April 2011: Reform absurdities outmanoeuvre realistic strategies

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04/07/2011 - 13:13

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association on reform absurdities and realistic strategies

The longer this week goes on, the more the brilliant April first piece in the HSJ looks like reality. The fact that they printed such a piss-taking article shows how low the stock of LaLa has fallen. What with that and the LaLa rap song by MC NxtGen, things are getting a bit silly.

Editor's blog Wednesday 6 April 2011: Health select committee loses leading light Nadine Dorries

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04/06/2011 - 19:43

The health policy universe was today in mourning as news sunk in of Nadine Dorries MP's standing down from the Commons health select committee to serve on the chairmen's panel instead.

Thanks to Mike Birtwistle of MHP Health Mandate for the information.

Editor's blog Wednesday 6 April 2011: GOBSAAT Alert as Government announces completely pointless NHS Future Forum

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04/06/2011 - 12:12

If you were going to set up this NHS Future Forum as a genuine, robustly independent listening exercise, would you ask very strong supporter of the White Paper, shortlisted-but-not-appointed chief medical officer candidate and former RCGP chair Dr Steve Field to chair it?

Me neither.

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Click here for details of 'Andrew Lansley's Millwall Tendency', via subscription-based Health Policy Intelligence.

Editor's blog Wednesday 6 April 2011: Times moots the Cable guy as next Health Secretary

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04/06/2011 - 09:40

Today's Times editorial moots the possibility of Lib Dem MP Dr Vincent Cable as the next Secretary Of State For Health.

It is a very interesting possibility. The Lib Dems will need a 'win' such as heading up a big, spending department if they get hammered in the local elections and lose the AV referendum, which opinion polls currently think likely.

Cable also brings a human hinterland to the world of front-line politics. He is liked across party political divisions. He had no expenses issues.

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