Topical lookey-likey: the man spraying germy snot everywhere in the Department of Health’s swine flu prevention adverts looks like foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker from The Thick of It and In the Loop.
The character was supposedly based on Alastair Campbell - you can make your own joke about poisonous slime.
NHS England has seen off a legal challenge to its largest ever medicines procurement, which is aimed at acquiring drugs to help eliminate hepatitis C in the country by 2025.
NHS England has been accused of a “crude” attempt to engineer a “land grab” after its NHS long-term plan suggested a diminished role for local government in public health.
The third largest London borough will discontinue its NHS-provided stop smoking service to save money.
This week: Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation
HSJ expanded its comment section in October with the launch of The Bedpan, a Sunday morning fix for health policy junkies in the form of interviews by our editor Alastair McLellan.
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