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The NHS deserves a better, more open debate over health reform
The Health Bill enters the crucial report stage in the House of Lords next week amid huge controversy. To mark this, the BMJ, HSJ and Nursing Times have, for the first time, cooperated to publish the same editorial.
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A weak private sector is bad news for the NHS
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The complexity of competition rules creates confusion and risk
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Ministers must slow down to avoid another Mid Staffs
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Cameron is tending self-inflicted wounds
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2012: what now for the NHS?
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The mediocre will be the only losers if pay is reformed fairly
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Don’t be squeamish: learn to embrace innovation
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HSJ100: In a time of transition, power lies in David Nicholson’s iron grip
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An unflinching framework in the face of relentless pressure
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Make an ‘impossible job’ easier by following a NICE example
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Less haste would have led to less waste
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Maximum waits matter as much as minimum ones
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Winners demonstrate the power of unity
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Legal challenges threaten service redesign
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Where are all the female clinical leaders?
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Change is inevitable, but more confusion and conflict is not
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The many questions we still need to answer on integration
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CCG support vision will calm anger but spark controversy
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Pension squeeze is another victim of inept NHS reform
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Rewriting the rules of the blame game
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DH chases up service changes with an undisguised urgency
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'Only mugs work in commissioning’: tackling the management brain drain
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NHS giants sound warning of acute financial turmoil
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Clare Gerada ups the stakes in her fight to ‘save’ the NHS
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Why caution on hospital failure still has its price
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Fear of failure or staff fury may drive further job cuts
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Rival factions fight for influence in Future Forum’s second coming
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Distrust and pragmatism inform softly-softly authorisation plan
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The government risks severing links with valuable volunteers
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Getting clinicians to speak up is the real key to fighting poor care
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The vision for public health dims as confusion surrounds spending
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Lansley’s defence of management cuts is disingenuous and dangerous
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Transparency offers a chink of light in a dark week for reform
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Save now, pay later: the pension cuts folly
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High trust, robust challenge and a firm grip are key to success
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Nicholson’s power is unrivalled – so is his responsibility to lead
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The government’s changes will only delay the tough decisions
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Reform changes may threaten what little progress is being made
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The NHS must plan for a decade of austerity
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The CQC is feeling the pressure as rising uncertainty takes its toll
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Celebrate, don't denigrate: the case for management is clear
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Service sweats over plans B, C and D as pause takes its toll
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Benefits lost as C-word remains a taboo
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Cameron phones friends to help answer tricky reform questions
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PCTs are dead. Long live the PCT cluster?
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Inquiry adds to the toxic reform mix
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Straggling organisations set to slip into crisis
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Andrew Lansley: an enemy of reform?
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Imperial's problems are the first rumblings of a perfect storm
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Why Andrew Lansley should stay - and why he might go
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Action on the ground is proving as fascinating as Westminster tussles
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Transparency tsar could spark a revolution
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One more sign that we may miss the expertise of PCTs
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Pay attention to the sound of the crowd
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Performance bonuses: a fair swap for public service pension reform?
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2013 has already arrived for some regions
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Is Andrew Lansley 'screaming inside'?
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Regulating managers will not resolve the issues they face
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MPs could teach GPs a lesson in prudence
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Squaring the price competition and efficiency circle
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Alcohol harm is causing a nasty headache
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Competition should never be first choice, but it could be best
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If accountability counts, its value must be recognised
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Local performance is the key to the future of the NHS
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Is a narrative for complex health reform impossible?
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The NHS might be being rewired, but its electricity runs to much the same effect
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‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery
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Private sector takeover not as imminent as some may have it
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'Conspiracy of silence hides true extent of poor GP performance'
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'Now with 25pc more reason to believe'
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Nicholson is master of all he surveys after surprise decision
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'Lansley may play down his reforms' radicalism, but this does not involve big changes to his plans'
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Battleship Lansley ploughs on through the fog of reform
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Circle’s success at Hinchingbrooke is more likely to be cultural than commercial
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White paper let down by speedy schedule
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GPs and government battle for custody of white paper reforms
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HSJ100: Politicians and medics surge to power in the new world order
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What Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear
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Lansley accelerates his plans as Labour’s opposition falters
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An American Dream we should believe in
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The new mortality indicator suffers from mixed messages
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GPs stung by maternity services rebuff
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NHS management challenge stays much the same, rich or poor
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HSJ Finance: helping you achieve NHS efficiency
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We need NHS managers to tackle the first financial crisis since 1987
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Follow the leaders – or waste billions of pounds every year
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The coalition’s honeymoon is in danger of being called off
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Your idea could redefine the health service
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The NHS has too many hospitals - something’s got to give
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Lansley acknowledges lack of readiness for GP commissioning
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The hurricane of protest over NHS pay can be calmed by honest debate
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Conflicting messages from the top hint at growing resistance
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It’s not just commissioning – who will fill the PCT vacuum?
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The health community remains doubtful of Cameron’s big idea
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NHS spending debate focuses on the wrong type of consultant
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The accountability of overspending GPs
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Alarm bells sound as financial scrutiny falls victim to the cuts
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Help shape the 2010 Hospital Guide
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World class commissioning: this ridiculed plan might just be working
