Andrew Taylor

I was back last year and think Belgrade and Serbia are great, but it doesn't take much to come across both pro Western and pro Russian strains in the community. 4/4

People who would never speak on public transport talking to one another. The local music scene was really vibrant, an impression of lots of young people without jobs picking up a guitar 3/n

Bomb damage at the buildings you've photographed + a few more such as the state TV hq. Some young pro west young people told me about how unifying it was when they were being bombed 2/n

I went into Serbia just a few weeks after the fall of Milosevic. The new govt had asked for British help with untangling some questionable arrangements in the telecoms sector 1/n

NHSE must re-run or scrap contract award after string of errors NHS England North West made several errors in contracting a private provider to run health and justice services in Lancashire and Cumbria, regulators have found.

NHS England North West made several errors in contracting a private provider to run health and justice services in Lancashire and Cumbria, regulators have found.
www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

While it's still early days (we're not yet thro a full contracting round under the new rules), the small no. of referrals to the Panel in 2024 is a great achievement, and a testament to the work of procurement professionals across the NHS and local govt. (3/3)

Since PSR's intro in Jan 2024, several thousand contracts have been awarded for hospital, community health, mental health and public health services. But, from these thousands of award decisions only 4 disputes were referred to the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel in 2024 (2/3)

Congratulations are in order for procurement professionals across the NHS and local govt. Much hard work has been put in to make a success of the new procurement rules for healthcare services (known as the Provider Selection Regime, or PSR). (1/3)

While it's still early days (we're not yet thro a full contracting round under the new rules), the small no. of referrals to the Panel in 2024 is a great achievement, and a testament to the work of procurement professionals across the NHS and local govt. (3/3)

Since PSR's intro in Jan 2024, several thousand contracts have been awarded for hospital, community health, mental health and public health services. But, from these thousands of award decisions only 4 disputes were referred to the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel in 2024 (2/3)

Congratulations are in order for procurement professionals across the NHS and local govt. Much hard work has been put in to make a success of the new procurement rules for healthcare services (known as the Provider Selection Regime, or PSR). (1/3)

Very sorry to hear of Christopher Hood's passing. He was a fantastic lecturer on my MSc Regulation at LSE.

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
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1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

Cowper’s Cut 348: Truth or Consequences I know I’ve written this line before, but it remains true that you can always tell when things are getting really bad in the NHS: people start telling the truth. Truth or Consequences: not just a cit...

As a ‘welcome to BlueSky’, I’m unpaywalling the latest column for a few hours. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

P G Wodehouse was born 143 years ago today. So many wonderful sentences. Here’s one: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

Another great legal starter pack with some folk I’d not found on here.

The Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel has just published its second report. The Panel's advice and recommendations concern the procurement of a same day urgent care service at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. The Panel's report is here www.england.nhs.uk/commissionin...

Still early days for the new NHS procurement rules, but this may be a sign that the new regime is working well

It's been a quiet start for the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel since setting up in January. We estimate there to have been around 1,000 contracts awarded under the new NHS procurement rules, and only 3 cases have made it to the Panel.