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Cowper’s Cut 296: NHS England goes full Hitchhiker’s Guide To …

WebElectives and capital to be cut after Treasury refuses £1bn strike cash plea. The NHS’s work to bring down the 7 million elective waiting list is being curtailed, after …

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Cowper’s Cut 295: The One About Alan’s Honesty And Probity

WebHealth Service Journal's Henry Anderson revealed that the foolish practice of fining under-water providers for missing CQUIN quality standards is to be stopped.He …

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Guest editorial 10 June 2009: Bob Sang

WebEditor's note: Bob Sang's untimely death has taken away one of the most original and innovative thinkers about the co-production of healthcare. It is not currently …

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Getting to the point of health systems

Webby Mike Farrar and Andy Cowper. The NHS in England’s annual budget is £161 billion. Yet across the sector, from the still-growing backlog (the longest waits are …

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What is to be done

WebThe number one thing that can be done at the national level is creating incessant pressure for the Treasury to take action on the pensions taper tax and annual …

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The Maynard Doctrine: The NICE end-of-life cut-off point

WebWhen NICE’s new policies for end- of-life and rarer diseases was announced in January this year, there were reports that the NICE cut-off could be raised from …

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Cowper’s Cut 263: Warming to Steve Barclay

WebThe NHS has allegedly "warmed to Steve Barclay".. Has it? Really? Climate change is having all sorts of odd effects, but nobody at all has noticed this one, other …

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Cowper’s Cut 289: Umpteen strikes and you’re out

WebHealth Service Journal's Henry Anderson has seen a note to finance directors from NHS England deputy chief financial officer Ed Waller.. Waller wrote “at this …

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What's in a name

WebDavid Oliver is an experienced NHS consultant who has played a variety of local and national medical leadership roles, and is a regular columnist for the British …

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Editorial Friday 5 February 2021: Exclusive

Web“The Health and Social Care Act 2012 put a regime in place which put competition as the organising principle for improvement in NHS care. This has in some …

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NHS England CE Amanda Pritchard's speech to NHS ConfedExpo …

WebThe NHS is already one of the world’s most efficient health systems. Just 2 pence in the NHS pound is spent on administration. In France, it’s double that, and in the …

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Why people subscribe to Health Policy Insight, by those who do

WebDaniel Reynolds. Director of communications, NHS Confederation. “ After feeling left out and deprived of insight, I'm pleased to say I've finally subscribed to Health …

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Moving the goalposts: the strange case of the fictional …

WebAs the Health Bill returns to the Lords, the edifying sight and sound of political idiots and merch-vending grifters crying 'wolf!' about fictional NHS privatisation is …

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Editorial Monday 19 July 2021: Welcome to

WebI've been writing about the politics and management of the NHS since 2000. Since then, HPI has sat alongside my journalism for a range of outlets. It has sought to …

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Stephen Black: On GP face-to-face appointments, sacred cows and …

WebStephen Black: On GP face-to-face appointments, sacred cows and bad arguments. A sacred cow (well, sort of) This guest post by Steve Black is drawn from his …

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Editorial Thursday 23 October 2014: A subtle subversion – NHS …

Web‘Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.’ – Proverbs 29:18 Simon Stevens is a subtle subversive: a highly effective …

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Editorial Monday 7 June 2021: NHS Improvement chair Baroness …

WebNHS Improvement chair Baroness Dido Harding on Woman’s Hour: a rough transcript.Interview by Emma Barnett. Emma Barnett: Is TAT system robust enough to …

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Editorial Monday 27 April 2015: RIP Professor Aidan Halligan

WebProfessor Aidan Halligan has died unexpectedly, aged 57. A friend and mentor to many, he was the NHS's first director of clinical governance, and also deputy …

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