The Bedpan
The Bedpan: This crisis will only become real to most once someone they know dies
This week: Ben Page, chief executive of pollsters Ipsos Mori
‘Even with the NHS in crisis, they still didn’t trust us’
This week: Jonathan Ashworth MP
The Bedpan: He’s back!
This week: Jeremy Hunt
The Bedpan: You shouldn’t have to be suicidal to get care
This week: Munira Wilson MP
The Bedpan: The Tories ‘aren’t stupid enough’ to privatise the NHS
This week: Centre for Policy Studies chief executive Robert Colvile
The Bedpan: Who knows what the Tories will do to the NHS
This week: Emily Thornberry MP
Former CMO: Pointless to challenge government on austerity
This week: Dame Sally Davies
The Bedpan: The NHS has been politically neutralised
This week: John McTernan
The Bedpan: ‘The problem with conceding to Simon Stevens…’
This Week: May at 10 by Sir Anthony Seldon
The Bedpan: The NHS is a role model for capitalism
This week: Will Hutton
The Bedpan: Politicians ‘lie about everything’
This week: Jed Mercurio
‘It was the most terrible thing I’d ever seen’
This week: Barry Quirk, chief executive of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
The Bedpan: Safe in the Iron Lady’s hands
This week: Margaret Thatcher and the birth of the internal market
The Bedpan: Extinction Rebellion reaches the NHS
This week: Doctors for Extinction Rebellion
The Bedpan: ‘I should have challenged DH advice on Mid Staffs’
This week: Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester
The Bedpan: ‘Start acting like f**king grown ups’
This week: Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley
The Bedpan: ‘Under the Knife’? Not really
What it is: Under the Knife is a new, crowd-funded and Keep Our NHS Public-supported documentary.
The Bedpan: David Cameron’s autobiography
The Bedpan examines the views of influential figures from (usually) outside the health world who nevertheless have interesting views on the challenges facing the NHS. It is named after Nye Bevan’s apocryphal quote.
The Bedpan: There’s no reward for NHS managers who tell the truth
This week: Karin Smyth MP
The Bedpan: Boris would think NHS management ‘fads’ are ‘ridiculous’
This week: Lord (Danny) Finkelstein of Pinner
The Bedpan: The poor can’t afford to follow public health advice
This week: Professor Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London
The Bedpan: Being minister was like ‘fighting a rearguard action’
This week: Sir Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk
The Bedpan: Get your finance director talking about culture
This week: David R Williams, professor of public health and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University
The Bedpan: ‘Healthcare is cultural’
This week: Ryoji Noritake, chief executive of the Tokyo-based Health and Global Policy Institute.
The Bedpan: Policy makers must be ‘confident and humble’
This week: Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care
The Bedpan: does God
This week: James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
The Bedpan: When the NHS asks, the answer is ‘yes’
This week: Nicky Morgan, Conservative MP and chair of the House of Commons Treasury select committee.
Stevens: NHS must take more responsibility for tackling climate change
This week: NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens
The Bedpan: The NHS must take gambling seriously
This week: Bill Moyes, chair of the Gambling Commission
The Bedpan: 'It’s about decency and what your readers want'
This week: Matt Tee, chief executive of the Independent Press Standards Organisation
The Bedpan: Being stabbed is ‘a real teachable moment’
This week: Sarah Jones MP, chair of the all-party Parliamentary group on knife crime
The Bedpan: 'You must attend the opening of every new MRI'
This week: Part two of our interview with Ben Page, chief executive of pollsters Ipsos MORI
The Bedpan: 'Suddenly that vast gorilla is very interested in you'
This week: Ben Page, chief executive of pollsters Ipsos MORI
The Bedpan: 'GPs are scared... I don't blame them'
This Week: Susie Green, chief executive of trans-child charity Mermaids
The Bedpan: I despise bandwagon jumpers
This Week: Chris Bryant, Labour MP for Rhondda since 2001
Dillon: We should have thought harder on safe staffing
This week: Sir Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
The Bedpan: The NHS is politics incarnate
This week: The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee
The Bedpan: The accidental MP
This week: Labour MP for Stockton South, Dr Paul Williams
The Bedpan: ‘Kick off as much as you like, your A&E’s going’
This Week: Sir Mike Penning, Conservative MP for Hemel Hempstead
The Bedpan: It's difficult for people to imagine different could be good
This week: Stella Creasy MP
The Bedpan: Soaking the rich won’t fund the NHS
This week: Paul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies
The Bedpan: The NHS doesn't exist to provide jobs for migrants
This week: Neil Anderson, director of Migration Watch
The Bedpan: No such thing as a good Brexit for the NHS
This week: Professor Anand Menon
Jeremy Heywood - an appreciation
This week: Jeremy Heywood
The Bedpan: The public are not idiots
This week: Torsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation
The best of The Bedpan 2018
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.
The Bedpan: “Excuse me, pal”
This week: Philippa Whitford MP, SNP health shadow
The Bedpan: The Army takes values more seriously than the NHS
This week: Johnny Mercer MP for Plymouth Moor View
The Bedpan: Wollaston to the rescue
This week: Part two of our in-depth interview with Dr Sarah Wollaston, focusing on her role as the chair of the Commons health and social care committee. Part one is here.
The Bedpan: Still rattling cages
This week: Sarah Wollaston, Conservative MP for Totnes and chair of the Commons health committee