The Bedpan
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: Being minister was like ‘fighting a rearguard action’
This week: Sir Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat MP for North Norfolk
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: 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
The Bedpan: Financially illiterate and morally wrong
This week: Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree
The Bedpan: Let them eat pizza
This week: John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance
The Bedpan: The NHS after capitalism
The Bedpan is HSJ’s new weekly political column. This week, it features Paul Mason, former journalist and an intellectual driving force of the resurgent radical left.
The Bedpan: Stevens’ Tory Plan
The Bedpan is HSJ’s new weekly political column. This week, it features Fraser Nelson, the editor of Tory ‘house magazine’ the Spectator.