Archive

2011

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December
In case there is any doubt...
NHS Predictions for 2012
Memories of Paul
A radical thought
Private Patient Income Cap
Are you afraid of the facts?
Lady Williams
Diabetes Audit
NHS Funding
Data
Anonymising Data
TUPE

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November
Not in my name
What's happening in the Lords
Choice
Dithering
GP Market

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October
NHS Expenditure
CCG Size: designed to fail
The Mackay Amendment
Privatisation
Personal Budgets
Cherry picking
Yet Another Lansley U-turn?
Norwich South
Secretary of State Responsibility
Integration
PMI eyes PPUs
There's more of us than there are of you
Monitor and CQC: unfit for purpose?
Silver lining?
AQP and Commissioning
Fickle Patients
Hospital Closures and Catchment Areas
Charidee

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September
Designer Insulin
Campaigning and Fixed Term Parliaments
Private Patient Income Cap
Corrigan's dumbing down of patients to close hospitals
Representative
Simon Jenkins is wrong about everything
The nonsense that is "cutting admin"
Objections
Over to the Lords
Personal Healthcare Budgets
Trivial

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August
Cost of diabetes
Choice and Competition
What we teach our kids
Rank Hypocrisy
Our safety at stake in Lala land?

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July
I'll cut the NHS and raise the deficit
When it comes to hypocrisy, Lib Dems are the Masters
Vote for Public Services?
What do you really mean, Mr Clegg?
QIPP
A poor show from Miliband
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
A Labour Manifesto on the NHS
Any Qualified Provider
Inverse Poll Tax

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June
Bill Committee
Twitter
Writing
Temple, moneychangers and dog food
Localism and centralising
Hospital doctors and commissioning
Two tiers
District General Hospitals
Choice

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May
Timeline
More on Warner
Warner and NHS Reforms
Debts Circling round and round
One Third
Social Care and the Lib Dems
Competition
Creative accounting with public money
Observation on NHS satisfaction survey
Private Healthcare Touts For Business
Lansley's Fantasy Figures
Can we trust Clegg on the NHS?
LibDems get tough
GP Commissioning
Phantom Listening Events

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April
Excuses for the Squeeze
The big squeeze
Burning your bridges
Are UK private hospitals capable?
Is the Enquiry turning Toxic?
NHS OBR?
Dodgy Figures
Tax the sick for being sick
Two livers, two healthcare systems
Ed Miliband "gets it"
PCTs and Lib Dems
Tories' deliberate deception on the NHS
Any Qualified Provider
Four Simple Changes
Public Health delocalised
If mutuals are the solution, what's the problem?
Anyone Listening?
NHS U-turn?
Latest GP Consortia

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March
Mutuals
Bring and buy sale of the NHS
Is this the right way to make laws?
Health and Social Care Bill: Full Steam Ahead!
Do the BNP do better in Labour areas?
Fighting a losing battle
Reason to vote against AV
Fundamentalism
Ch ch changes...?
The 'N' and 'F' words
Labour and NHS Funding
Arse from Elbow
Reaction to Lib Dem NHS Motion
Lib Dems live up to their reputation
A response to Paul Cotterill
GPs up against private firms in NHS sell-off of entire care pathways
Cameron as Royalty
Lies, damned lies and Lansley's utterances
Private Healthcare
Spin

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February
Community Care
NHS Privatisation
Efficiency and quality care
Tories attack Labour on a policy that the government is implementing
NHS Cuts
Figures
Cameron's Big Society HIGNFY style
Nick Clegg and the NHS
Prisoners
GP Consortia sizes
Dishonest Cameron
Big Society (Privatisation) Bank
Broken manifesto promise number 97
The sale of our woods
Trees
PCT Debts
Burns Night

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January
Too many managers
Level Playing Field part 2
Level Playing Field
Enthusiastic, or Bullied Pathfinders?
Developing the Health Market
Health Inequalities
House of Lords
FT Membership
The privatisation starts
BBC News
Proud of the BBC
Flu jabs
People with tea cosies on their heads
NHS Crises
Cynic? Me?
The most important issue of 2011
Big Society

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2010

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December
Will hospitals be local election issues at the next election?
What about hospitals?
Not-for-profit good?
Lansley fails
Train Crash
Next Steps
Designed to Fail
Lansley is Bullish
Disposable sections of the White Paper

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November
Any Willing Provider?
John Lewis
Orphan Drugs
Hinchingbrooke
Nasty Targets
Theresa May hates the NHS Too
More Squeezing of Hospital Income
Imagine this...
Student Fees
Mutualising Public Services
Is Lansley in a majority of one?
The NHS Sell Off
Militarisation
Parliamentary Reboot
Responsibility
Administration
PCT Functions
NHS Funding
Bloody Blairites
Basingstoke Rule
Cuts, cuts, cuts

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October
Will GP Consortia fail?
Social Enterprises
Privatisation
24 Hour Urgent Care
Sack for doing a job badly that you did not agree to do
Council chiefs want a veto
GPs should not own their premises
The Power of Targets
RCN Reaction to the White Paper
Hinchingbrooke: Labour's shame

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September
Why can't Lansley leave GPs alone?
Public Sector Pay
Franchising of the NHS
Worse care is on its way
Moving closer to privatisation
Ring fence, what ring fence?
NHS Alliance says timetable is unrealistic
Is the White Paper Too Ambitious?
Election Analysis
Numbers Redux
"Divided" BMA Attacks White Paper
Lansley Bails Out Hospital
Increasing the Postcode Lottery
Awards
GPs are Revolting!
Bad strategy is that which you cannot afford
Social Enterprises
Do LibDem hearts still beat on the left?
LibDem Emergency Motion on NHS
Evidence that Lansley is wrong
30% cut in NHS administrators
Rationing
GPs to have child protection responsibilities
NHS Maternity Services
Conflict
Look at how the decent majority killed the poll tax
Interesting Comments
The cat's been let out of the bag
GPs show "fierce opposition" to commissioning
Details about GP Consortia and Junior Doctor Training
Private Healthcare LOVES The Tories
GPs worry
Changes that will lead to no changes
Lansley Plays Hardball
Patient Groups Concerns Over NHS Changes
Is the GP stance on the White Paper crumbling?
GPs are slowly forming a view about GP Commissioning
More on GP Commissioning
Cameron's Lies

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August
Dimwitted Dorries
Nudges
GP Commissioning may cause a £2bn deficit
100 day that spelt the end of the NHS
NHS Alliance: White Paper is about closing hospitals
GP Committee of the BMA responds
New £50 million cancer fund already intellectually bankrupt
Private money for public health?
NHS Commissioning Board
Unison Fights the NHS White Paper
PCT Deficits
Lansley's plans are designed to fail
Private Centres in NHS Hospitals
More Worries Over GP Funding
GPs unsure about White Paper
What is Lansley Up To?
White Paper Criticisms From The Centre Right
Spending Review Website
Numbers
No NHS Savings "for years"
Mixed Sex Accommodation
NHS Services Closure
Drug Rationing - Will GPs Want To Do It?
Divide and Conquer
GPs will be "paid not to treat you"?
Analysis of the NHS White Paper
Privatisation of Foundation Trusts Started
NHS Privatisation
Too Many Managers in the NHS
More on NHS Privatisation
More NHS Cuts
Prescription Rationing
There's no NHS ring fence
It's all about pensions
Risk Pool
What's the value of your reputation?

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July
NHS Cuts
NHS Privatisation: PCT properties
What's happened to democracy?
Reactions to the NHS White Paper
Private Sector Are Worried
GP Commissioning
BMA urges guerilla tactics
Social Enterprises
Paying for private healthcare
NHS White Paper Part 6
NHS White Paper Part 5
NHS White Paper Part 4
NHS White Paper Part 3
NHS White Paper Part 2
NHS White Paper Part 1
NHS White Paper
The Civil Service Are The Enemy
Decline
Constituency Sizes
Gerrymandering
OBR
Lansley's plans will cost £1.2bn

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June
Lansley's plans stalled... just
Longer NHS Waiting Lists next year
Tory in Labour's clothing
Cameron's Claims on Economy are False
More evidence that the ConDems are Wrong
Get Ready For the Privatisation of the NHS

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May
Crisis, what crisis?
New Politics?
CCTV Cameras
What the LibDems Think
Biometric Passports
NHS Cuts Are On The Way
What is Facebook trying to tell me?
Tories and Statistics
The Corrupt Ratings Agencies

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April
Arse From Elbow?
LibDem Tories
What's Happening to the Polls?
Tories misuse statistics again.
Disobey on the 6th of May
What is in store for us
The Nasty Party Returns
Britain is Brilliant
Tory Manifesto Launch
Look After Our NHS
National Service
NHS Privatisation
Conservatives Business Plan
The end of public services

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March
I am a Cider Drinker*
Higher productivity: public sector or private sector?

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February
Tories new hereo: Reagan
The Nasty Party Shows Itself
Osborne's Cuts
Conservative Social Care Policy
A New Economic Model: Part 9
A New Economic Model: Part 8
A New Economic Model: Part 7
A New Economic Model: Part 6
A New Economic Model: Part 5
A New Economic Model: Part 4
A New Economic Model: Part 3
A New Economic Model: Part 2
A New Economic Model: Part 1

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January
Conservatives NHS Autonomy and Accountability Proposals
Conservative Green Paper on Health Outcomes: Part 3
Conservative Green Paper on Health Outcomes: Part 2
Conservative Green Paper on Health Outcomes: Part 1
Conservative Public Health Green Paper: Part 3
Conservative Public Health Green Paper: Part 2
Conservative Public Health Green Paper: Part 1
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Index
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Conclusions
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 14
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 13
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 12
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 11
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 10
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 9
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 8
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 7
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 6
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 5
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 4
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 3
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 2
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Dissection Part 1
Conservative Draft Manifesto 2010: Chapter One, Our reform plan for the NHS