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Editor's blog Wednesday 30 March 2011: Lansley's new top-down target U-turn 10% of NHS community budget for social enterprise

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03/30/2011 - 09:33

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I have a solution to the nation's financial woes. A tax on health policy U-turns would see the UK's deficit wiped out much sooner.

See? I can do constructive.

Editor's blog Wednesday 30 March 2011: Lansley; ex-NHS staff mutuals' "right to provide"; policy improvisation; child's play

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03/29/2011 - 23:20

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Truly, I felt I probably could not be further surprised by the U-turns and confusions of Secretary Of State For Health Andrew Lansley and his Millwall Tendency.

Editor's blog Tuesday 29 March 2011: Health Policy Intelligence #1, 'Andrew Lansley's Millwall Tendency', out now

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03/29/2011 - 17:13

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Editor's blog Tuesday 29 March 2011: SOS Lansley's HardTalk transcript

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03/29/2011 - 06:29

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Again thanks to a selfless Health Policy Insight reader for their labour, we can bring you a transcript of Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley's appearance on BBC News Hard Talk.

Andrew Lansley - HardTalk, BBC News 24, 15 February 2011

Editor's blog Monday 28 March 2011: Exclusive - DH ignored tendering best practice in funding new research unit

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03/28/2011 - 15:54

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Would it surprise you to learn that the Department of Health had a non-competitive process to let a former member of its staff set up a new research body, and guaranteed it funding for three financial years?

Editor's blog Monday 28 March 2011: Lansley withers on the Vine

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03/28/2011 - 10:04

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Once again, a kind Health Policy Insight reader has given up more of their valuable free time to transcribe a media appearance by Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley. This one was The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, 16 March 2011. Vine is, when at his best, an excellent and incisive interviewer.

Guest editorial Saturday 26 March 2011: Time for a break

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03/26/2011 - 08:10

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association thinks it is time to park the Health And Social Care Bill.

The Health and Social Care Bill is due to finish its committee stage next week, but it is obviously in serious trouble. There is a compelling argument to simply park it for a while.

Editor's blog Friday 25 March 2011: Another Lansley U-turn liberates survey data, as plans emerge to cut public health study

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03/25/2011 - 23:21

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Politicians view U-turns as many people view U-bends - useful things, but no desire to go near them yourself.

After his handy manoeuvre on price competition, if Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley is considering retraining for life after politics, then plumbing might be up the list.

The world always needs plumbers.