Health Policy Insight
Healthcare management online analysis and intelligence
The home of UK health policy
Editor's Blog
Editor's Blog
The Editor's daily bulletin, by Andy Cowper
Editorial Friday 9 July 2021: What the remaining NHS England leadership candidates must consider09/07/21
Editorial Friday 11 June 2021: USA's FDA orders recall of Innova lateral flow tests11/06/21
Editorial Monday 7 June 2021: NHS Improvement chair Baroness Dido Harding interviewed on 'Woman's Hour'07/06/21
Editorial Wednesday 26 May 2021: The People’s Dominic Show26/05/21
Editorial Tuesday 25 May 2021: The new 2021 lockdown trend25/05/21
Editorial Friday 30 April 2021: Who's next? Post-Stevensism, the Mencken Fallacy and the art of the impertinent question30/04/21
Editorial Thursday 29 April 2021: Sir Simon Stevens steps down as NHS Commissioning Board CE29/04/21
Editorial Thu 15 April 2021: 'Alan's Big Pocket': Hancock given 15% shareholding in sister's NHS £150K contract-winning company15/04/21
Editorial Wednesday 31 March 2021: Why did Open Democracy misleadingly claim it won its Palantir court case against NHS England?31/03/21
Editorial Friday 26 March 2021: From The Sun King to a mere Prince of Wales - NHS 'England' comms boss Simon Enright is off26/03/21
Editorial Thursday 25 March 2021: Weird Government: up-talking Matt and outsourcing accountability for TAT25/03/21
Editorial Wednesday 17 March 2021: Hancock's half-witted hopes to re-politicise top NHS appointments17/03/21
Editorial Tuesday 16 March 2021: The Government's Covid19 blame game - pattern recognition and kitchen sink surrealism16/03/21
Editorial Thursday 11 March 2021: Health Minister Nadine Dorries to nurses: their husbands' pay/furlough makes 1% pay offer OK11/03/21
Editorial Wednesday 10 March 2021: Does Test And Trace work?10/03/21
Regular Columns
Regular Columns
The Maynard Doctrine
The Maynard Doctrine - The NHS regulatory hogwash09/10/17
The Maynard Doctrine: Jeremy Hunt’s report card24/08/17
The Maynard Doctrine: The shrinking of the state: permanent or transitory?31/07/17
The Maynard Doctrine: NHS care - waltzing into an ebb-tide?06/04/17
The Maynard Doctrine: The Empress has no clothes12/01/17
The Maynard Doctrine: How to fund the NHS - zombie policies rise yet again01/11/16
The Maynard Doctrine: What efficiency is21/09/16
The Maynard Doctrine: Continuous Revolution (again)09/06/16
The Maynard Doctrine: Cut the horseshit: where’s the evidence?04/05/16
The Maynard Doctrine: The Sinking of the NHS Titanic30/03/16
The Maynard Doctrine: How is Sir Galahad doing? A termly report29/01/16
The Maynard Doctrine: Management needs measurement: time for the NHS to do better19/01/16
The Maynard Doctrine: Some friendly advice from Dave to Jeremy17/11/15
The Maynard Doctrine: Come on, Sir Galahad Stevens, lance the nonsense!15/10/15
The Maynard Doctrine: On Nero, and fiddling whilst the NHS burns03/09/15
Health Policy Today
A daily teatime summary, analysing the day's debate, by Tom Smith
Health Policy Today 3rd October 2011: Labouring over late diagnosis03/10/11
Health Policy Today 26 September 2011: Responsibility for early diagnosis26/09/11
A radical, unavoidable future for the NHS, whoever wins: Health Policy Today 6 May 201006/05/10
Andy, Norman or Andrew; which Health Secretary wannabe to make omelettes without breaking eggs? Health Policy Today 22 April '1023/04/10
Obama’s political prose puts the wheels back on health reform and lead in the pencil of House legislators: Health Policy Today 10/09/09
David Cameron, NHS ladies' man: Health Policy Today 28 July 200928/07/09
An A-Z of US healthcare politics: Health Policy Today 25 July 200924/07/09
Make tough choices? They won't even write them down. Health Policy Today, 9 July 200909/07/09
Back to Griffiths and management basics - manage the money, manage the medics: Health Policy Today 9 June 200909/06/09
To laugh or cry about 'iGP' proposals? Health Policy Today 12th March 2009.10/03/09
Amid a snowy backdrop, moves afoot to whiten rules and procedures: Health Policy Today 2nd February 200902/02/09
Giving it some attitude: feedback for health policy from 2009 British Social Attitudes report - Health Policy Today,30th January30/01/09
Obama's health reform plans to cover the unemployed begin now – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200921/01/09
Constructing routines to better support teams – Health Policy Today, 20 January 200919/01/09
2009: when economics and politics collide – Health Policy Today, 11 January 200912/01/09
Features
Features
Tuesday 13 July 2010: Sir David Nicholson's 'Dear colleague' letter on the White Paper changes13/07/10
Sir David Nicholson speech to NHS Confederation conference 25 June 201005/07/10
Andrew Lansley speech to NHS Confederation conference 24 June 201024/06/10
Dr Michael Dixon speech to NHS Alliance conference 200920/10/09
‘Looking ahead to 2010/11: healthcare beyond the next general election’ - the 2009 Wellards Annual Conference14/10/09
Guest editorial 10 June 2009: Bob Sang - Health gain: the true test of quality for 21st century healthcare10/06/09
Breaking down tribal barriers: the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT commissioning collaboration with Tribal PLC (part 1 of 4)09/06/09
Coles to a new castle: Patrick Carter, chair of the new NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel16/09/08
Tax breaks for health? Policy update from the 2008 Lib Dem party conference15/09/08
Kings Fund debate 11 September 2008. What is fair – should patients be allowed to top up their care?11/09/08
Reforming the funding? It's an (in)sure thing09/09/08
A gentlemen’s agreement, or a gentleman’s excuse-me?03/07/08
What’s your take-up on technology?26/06/08
Nick Timmins: Top-ups: the earth moves as the NHS's 60th anniversary approaches17/06/08
Colloquia
Colloquia 31 July 2008: new ways of incentivising clinical performance31/07/08
Colloquia: markets and choice in healthcare14/07/08
Colloquia: ministering to clinical priorities, or political ones?07/07/08
Colloquia: talking about Darzi29/06/08
Interviews
Interview: Andrew Taylor, NHS Co-Operation and Competition Panel18/10/11
Interview: Nick Bosanquet - Progress towards The Bosanquet Hypothesis?15/06/11
Simon Stevens 2011 Health Policy Insight interview - Making sense of the NHS reforms23/04/11
Interview - Stephen Dorrell MP, chair, Commons Health Select Committee31/03/11
Interview - Sir Robert Naylor, chief executive, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust05/07/10
Interview: Dr Peter Brambleby, director of public health, Croydon - commissioning, austerity and the new public health25/06/10
Interview: Timothy Heymann, reader in health management and consultant – a secondary care perspective on commissioning and refor24/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Dr Michael Dixon, chair, NHS Alliance – clinical commissioning is the best of GP fundholding and locality commissioni23/06/10
Interview: Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance - bringing clincians and mangers together to commission23/06/10
Interview: Andrew Donald – a PCT perspective on the coming of clinical commissioning21/06/10
Interview: Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive, NHS Confederation – radical reforms with commissioning, choice and innovation 18/06/10
Interview: Matt Tee, Permanent Secretary of Government Communications, Cabinet Office12/05/10
Interview - Dr Bill Moyes, executive chair, Monitor13/01/10
Interview - Michael Sobanja, chief executive, NHS Alliance16/10/09