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Commissioning board and Trust Development Authority directors handed responsibility for 2012-13 delivery

13-Aug-2012
Some 'abolished' PCT and SHA staff to stay on after April 2013

30-Jul-2012
Vacant commissioning board posts endangering transition

19-Jul-2012
Nigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded

26-Apr-2012
Commissioning board chair: liberation of the NHS 'won't happen overnight'

25-Apr-2012
Bill delay threat as government consults on reform risk register

16-Nov-2011
Why the success of health and wellbeing boards depends on relationships

16-Nov-2011
Health Bill risks 'weakening ministerial accountability' - Lords committee

30-Sep-2011
BMA to launch campaign calling for withdrawal of Health Bill

20-Jul-2011
'NHS England' name plan stirs controversy

5-Jul-2011
Lansley meeting Future Forum to discuss its future

1-Jul-2011
Health Bill: rules unclear on open board meetings

24-Jun-2011
Health Bill: changes risk ‘paper duties’ and central pressure

24-Jun-2011
Health Bill: competition changes may not be ‘substantive’

24-Jun-2011
Health Bill: government publishes 181 amendments

24-Jun-2011
DH admits preparing Health Bill changes before review report

21-Jun-2011
Government publishes full details of reform changes

20-Jun-2011
Exclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan

17-Jun-2011
Commissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson

16-Jun-2011
Nicholson: I feared Lansley’s competition rules

16-Jun-2011
The government shouldn't simply leave the past behind

16 June 2011
Government introduces string of requirements for new-look consortia

14-Jun-2011
In full: government responds to NHS Future Forum

14-Jun-2011
GPs don't think they are ready to commission, survey suggests

10-Jun-2011
Royal College commissioning school receiving nearly £2m for GPs' training

8-Jun-2011
Exclusive: GP commissioning consortia boards must contain a doctor and nurse

7-Jun-2011
Exclusive: politicians 'grandstanding' on competition, says review chair

26-May-2011
Clegg: 'NHS managers will continue where GPs are not ready'

26-May-2011
Public health funding cut threatens skilled staff

26-May-2011
Reforms face further delay and confusion, concedes Lansley

26 May 2011
Your humble servant: can you hear me, Andrew Lansley?

19 May 2011
Clinical networks to respond to competition fears

12-May-2011
PCT clusters may survive as reform pressure builds

11-May-2011
Exclusive: McKinsey called in to advise PM on NHS reforms

5-May-2011
Exclusive: expert panel to advise prime minister on NHS

3-May-2011
NHS Leeds chief executive takes on additional regional role

27-Apr-2011
'Without evidence, the rhetorical reforms are irrelevant at best'

27-Apr-2011
PCT clusters and chief executives list

27-Apr-2011
Cluster landscape shows 52 commissioners

27-Apr-2011
Reform review may demand 'no more reorganisations'

26-Apr-2011
Yorkshire chief named on 'listening exercise' review panel

20-Apr-2011
Sheffield chief nurse joins NHS Future Forum

18-Apr-2011
'Any qualified provider' guidance to slow market expansion

14 April 2011
Reform goals hampered by political pause

14 April 2011
Your humble servant: Lansley live - for one month only

14 April 2011
'Listening exercise' review members announced

13-Apr-2011
Steve Field: Cameron listening exercise is for real

7-Apr-2011
Exclusive: Steve Field to front PM's 'listening exercise' advisory panel

6-Apr-2011
One month's delay to NHS reforms

5-Apr-2011
Health boards need greater powers, says King's Fund

31 March 2011
Leading GP groups risk creation of 'sink estate' consortia

31 March 2011
DH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline

17 March 2011
Milburn rejects offer to join Commissioning Board chair competition

8-Mar-2011
Commissioning funds used to pay for GP basics

3 March 2011
Nicholson must 'prove he trusts' GP commissioners

3 March 2011
Public health directors warned of cool welcome

24 February 2011
Experts warn of increase in alcohol-related deaths

21-Feb-2011
Lansley U-turn on price competition

18-Feb-2011
FT governors calls for CQC quality assessment

17 February 2011
PCT 'first' to look at commissioning social enterprise

16-Feb-2011
Providing visually impaired patients with the right access to information

14-Feb-2011
5 Boroughs chief exec warns white paper has robbed his area of strong PCT leadership

10-Feb-2011
Michael White: somwhere to escape the cuts

10 February 2011
Commissioning firms to help shape support landscape

4-Feb-2011
Transition 'carefully designed and managed', says government

1-Feb-2011
Central grip tightens under 'independence' bill

27-Jan-2011
Government invites councils to pilot health and wellbeing boards

27 January 2011
Media Watch: health bill reaction reiterates 'chorus of concern'

27 January 2011
The value of NHS identity in change management

27-Jan-2011
Your essential guide to the Health Bill

21-Jan-2011
Bill casts 'doubt' over Monitor's independence from health secretary

20-Jan-2011
Commissioning board given 'draconian' powers

20-Jan-2011
Public health agenda more important than NHS, says Lansley

19-Jan-2011
'Time to scrap GP exception reporting'

19-Jan-2011
Nicholson: NHS commissioning board will step in if consortia falter

19-Jan-2011
Michael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility

19-Jan-2011
Marmot voices 'nudge' doubts

19-Jan-2011
Trust in breach of six CQC standards

19-Jan-2011
MPs: NHS white paper lacked 'credible plan'

18-Jan-2011
Private sector takeover not as imminent as some may have it

18-Jan-2011
US health giant Humana to pull out of UK

18-Jan-2011
Cameron steps in to defend health reforms

17-Jan-2011
Consultants highlight hidden costs of NHS white paper

14-Jan-2011
London reviews future of PCT support body

13 January 2011
Nick Bosanquet: Five steps to security

13 January 2011
How to create healthcare without walls

11-Jan-2011
Acute stay management and PACE

5-Jan-2011
Tim Riley on GP attitudes to commissioning consortia

30-Dec-2010
A model for the co-provision of home-based care

29-Dec-2010
First NHS outcomes framework published

20-Dec-2010
Levy on trusts to replace central NHS training funds

20-Dec-2010
Social care directors back statutory wellbeing boards

16-Dec-2010
Danger consortia will overlook networked services

16-Dec-2010
'Firm action' needed to avert disaster during transition period

16-Dec-2010
Plans for 'at risk' NHS staff revealed

16-Dec-2010
RCN 'extremely disappointed' at lack of nurse inclusion in reforms

16-Dec-2010
Think tanks warn reforms are distraction from QIPP

16-Dec-2010
More powers for health ombudsman and local health forums

15-Dec-2010
Key details added to radical reform plan

15-Dec-2010
NHS given another year to hit £20bn savings target

15-Dec-2010
Tariff to be cut by 1.5 per cent

15-Dec-2010
DH sticks to guns on removal of FT income cap and borrowing controls

15-Dec-2010
HSJ exclusive: Lansley appoints first commissioning board chief

15-Dec-2010
BMA criticises government for 'disregarding' the concerns of doctors

15-Dec-2010
Consortia should not inherit debts from PCTs, says government

15-Dec-2010
Monitor to keep intervention powers during transition

15-Dec-2010
Lansley: 'large number of people' support reforms

15-Dec-2010
White paper response: 'We were right to embark on this journey'

15-Dec-2010
Unions claim NHS reforms are 'badly timed vanity project'

15-Dec-2010
Dorrell's committee warns about impact of 'unprecedented' efficiency target

14-Dec-2010
How will the health reforms be judged?

9 December 2010
Michael White: caution and openness

9 December 2010
Public-private partnerships market growing to £1.8 trillion

9 December 2010
Trafford forced to drop integration plans in favour of merger with FT

3-Dec-2010
Alan Maryon-Davis is dreaming of a white paper

2-Dec-2010
Letwin called in to scrutinise Lansley's plans

2-Dec-2010
Circle wins battle to run hospital

2 December 2010
Government 'tinkering' with alcohol tax criticised

1-Dec-2010
Government to target teenage smoking

29-Nov-2010
Sainsbury's 'to give GPs free room for surgeries'

26-Nov-2010
'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'

25 November 2010
GPs and government battle for custody of white paper reforms

25 November 2010
Public health body fears PCTs are ‘asset stripping’

25 November 2010
'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'

25 November 2010
Lansley moves to replace Monitor chair

24-Nov-2010
DH to appoint new Monitor chair

23-Nov-2010
PCT job losses 'will happen within a year' - Unison

23-Nov-2010
Plain packaging for cigarettes planned

22-Nov-2010
Patients need single online NHS information hub, says Which?

22-Nov-2010
Fundamentals of the NHS - conference sessions

21-Nov-2010
Academics criticise the pace of change

19-Nov-2010
Our lives are in the cancer detectives’ hands

19-Nov-2010
Can patient choice alone force the changes the service needs?

17-Nov-2010
HSJ100: Hakin and Gerada lead the rise of the clinicians

17-Nov-2010
MPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail

17-Nov-2010
Stephen Dorrell: the ‘main game’ is delivering efficiency

17-Nov-2010
What Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear

17-Nov-2010
BMA calls for GP consortia elections

16-Nov-2010
DH claims retaining top managers is a priority

16-Nov-2010
GP consortia: new roles and new rules

11 November 2010
Healey will ‘get stuck into’ broken promises on health

11 November 2010
Pledge for democratic input on commissioning 'watered down'

10-Nov-2010
Nicholson letter suggests caution on scrapping PCTs

10-Nov-2010
DH chief warns consortia off using PCTs for commissioning support

10-Nov-2010
DH speeds up abolition of PCTs and SHAs

10-Nov-2010
Hakin warns against consortia using PCTs for commissioning support

9-Nov-2010
Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs

8-Nov-2010
Strategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'

8-Nov-2010
The eight ways to save cash and improve care

8-Nov-2010
Any future for non-foundation trusts?

4 November 2010
'Complaints about NICE on one page and useless, costly drugs on another'

4 November 2010
GP consortia accountability questioned

4 November 2010
More Tribal health staff jobs now at risk

4 November 2010
The NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts

4 November 2010
Top-up reduction proposal news 'not that new'

4 November 2010
Concern over rate of PCT talent drain

2-Nov-2010
Pay GPs more in poorer areas - public accounts committee

2-Nov-2010
Commissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab

29-Oct-2010
GPs 'outraged' at central commissioning of maternity services

29-Oct-2010
Capita eyes NHS quangos

28 October 2010
Expert predicts GP consortia failure

28 October 2010
Lansley warns councils against ‘empire building’ in healthcare

28 October 2010
NHS management challenge stays much the same, rich or poor

28 October 2010
No evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs

28 October 2010
White paper fears will not lead to GP exodus, says BMA

27-Oct-2010
Lansley defends reforms as survey reveals doubts

25-Oct-2010
Consortia management allowance will be in operating framework, says Nicholson

21-Oct-2010
Slow down will 'strangle' reforms, warns NAPC

21-Oct-2010
Fair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning

21 October 2010
Britnell sets up commissioning academy with NAPC

20-Oct-2010
Renegotiating NHS contracts: how to avoid the pitfalls

20-Oct-2010
Risk management will be flash point for PCTs and GP consortia

20-Oct-2010
MPs express consortia governance fears

19-Oct-2010
RCGP to launch commissioning support centre

19-Oct-2010
GP takes over at North East Lincs

19-Oct-2010
Integrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers

19-Oct-2010
BMA should 'rethink' private sector opposition

19-Oct-2010
Healthcare 100: Happy staff are best for patients

18-Oct-2010
Judge rejects union call for white paper judicial review

14-Oct-2010
Salisbury chief seconded to DH provider role

14-Oct-2010
Charities demand a bigger role in public health

14 October 2010
Competition could change the face of healthcare

14 October 2010
Unison's white paper legal challenge heard in the High Court

13-Oct-2010
College to lobby for inclusion of secondary care in consortia

13-Oct-2010
Alliance warns that consortia must be 'coordinated, not directed'

13-Oct-2010
FTN chair defends suspended Slipman

12-Oct-2010
Claire Rayner dies with warning on NHS reform

12-Oct-2010
Lansley plays down 'scale and pace' concerns over GP commissioning

12-Oct-2010
Transition plan 'risky' says Confed

12-Oct-2010
Future RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'

11-Oct-2010
Reform timetable ambitious but achievable - Lansley

11-Oct-2010
How the white paper will affect NHS estates

11-Oct-2010
Making the most of clinical leaders

10-Oct-2010
Lansley warned on 'disenfranchised' salaried GPs

8-Oct-2010
GPs sceptical reforms will benefit patients

8-Oct-2010
GP consortium pioneer says PCTs are vital safety net

7 October 2010
Mark Britnell: Have foundation trusts realised their potential?

7 October 2010
PCT functions 'need clarification'

7 October 2010
The coalition’s honeymoon is in danger of being called off

7 October 2010
The right way to form GP consortia

7 October 2010
Consortia may boost GP data

6-Oct-2010
Staff safety warning over cuts

6-Oct-2010
Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved

6-Oct-2010
Lansley gives PCTs more cash but defends their abolition

5-Oct-2010
Psychiatrists back removal of private income cap for FTs

5-Oct-2010
Milton rejects claim that NHS reforms are 'weak link' in government policy

5-Oct-2010
Value for money in pathology commissioning

5-Oct-2010
Union launches anti-white paper campaign

4-Oct-2010
NHS London to speed up management cost reductions

4-Oct-2010
GP commissioners must not ignore specialist advice, surgeons warn

4-Oct-2010
South Essex PCTs confirm creation of cluster

1-Oct-2010
Andy Burnham's letter to Andrew Lansley

1-Oct-2010
Burnham tells Lansley to back down on health reforms

1-Oct-2010
Unison given date for NHS judicial review hearing

1-Oct-2010
List of PCT functions drawn up to aid formation of GP consortia

30-Sep-2010
Essex PCTs to unveil single chief executive

30 September 2010
NHS managers explore 'plan B' for PCTs

30 September 2010
Quango cuts could cost 800 jobs

30 September 2010
'The pre-election death tax row continues to reverberate'

30 September 2010
Commissioning for outcomes

29-Sep-2010
NHS reform deadlines 'unrealistic'

28-Sep-2010
GP commissioning: assembling the kit for consortia

27-Sep-2010
Lansley attempts to kick start GPs on commissioning

24-Sep-2010
Unison welcomes 'positive indication' on white paper legal challenge

23-Sep-2010
DH to pay £18m to stricken FT

23-Sep-2010
Public health needs a long vigil

23 September 2010
FTs call for lighter control

22-Sep-2010
Bigger role for pharmacists could save £800m

16 September 2010
Concerns at ‘one legged’ public health restructure

16 September 2010
CQUIN used for minimum achievements

16 September 2010
Jon Restell on why managers are worth it

16 September 2010
Michael White: Is the summer silly season over?

16 September 2010
Continence care criticised

14-Sep-2010
White paper leads to shake up in top posts at SHAs

10-Sep-2010
Anticipating the spending review

10-Sep-2010
Chris J Hawkey: A new opening for transparency

9 September 2010
Emergency admissions bypassing GP referrals

9 September 2010
It’s not just commissioning – who will fill the PCT vacuum?

9 September 2010
Noel Plumridge on axes and accountability

9 September 2010
PCTs make a good shot at prioritisation

9 September 2010
DH to have veto over DPH appointments

8-Sep-2010
Millions 'can't get through on GP phone lines'

6-Sep-2010
'Lansley is saying it's not about saving cash or sacking nurses'

2 September 2010
Patient organisations fear losing voice

2 September 2010
The battle for NHS Direct

2 September 2010
The health community remains doubtful of Cameron’s big idea

2 September 2010
Social enterprise bid rethink by North East PCTs

1-Sep-2010
Burnham calls on Lib Dems to vote down reform

31-Aug-2010
NHS faces 'overwhelming obesity burden'

27-Aug-2010
Bids deadline nears for PCT social enterprises

26 August 2010
FT proposals: 'difficult questions' remain

26 August 2010
GP largesse alarms Lansley’s colleagues

26 August 2010
Lansley attacks 'damage morale and independence'

26 August 2010
Monitor set local authority concerns aside

26 August 2010
NHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind

26 August 2010
Union carries out legal threat on white paper reforms

24-Aug-2010
GPs: out of hours and out of pocket?

23-Aug-2010
BMA sets out principles for GP commissioning

20-Aug-2010
PCT support agency will look beyond London

19 August 2010
Think tank questions feasibility of planned NHS cuts

19 August 2010
'We all know NHS change will keep coming - the trick is to adapt'

19 August 2010
PCT and UnitedHealth end deal

18-Aug-2010
Trusts putting patients' lives at risk, claims AvMA

13-Aug-2010
'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'

12 August 2010
'La la Lansley has abolished the people who monitor us'

12 August 2010
World class commissioning values are a legacy for the long haul

12 August 2010
The government’s plan for the NHS: the health white paper analysed

6-Aug-2010
GPs overlook public health for QOF cash

5 August 2010
Is this the end of the road for PCTs?

5 August 2010
PCTs begin planning to reinvent their business

5 August 2010
Union threatens judicial review over pace of NHS change

5 August 2010
National Childbirth Trust wants maternity providers to go it alone

4-Aug-2010
Coalition in 'reckless gamble' with NHS, says Burnham

2-Aug-2010
Broader healthcare role for councils unveiled

29 July 2010
Foundation trust proposals raise tough borrowing question

29 July 2010
There is no time to waste as GPs grasp the scale of the challenge

29 July 2010
Uncertainty still dogs PCTs during transfer of power

29 July 2010
White paper: regulation reform to create 'level playing field'

26-Jul-2010
Model for managing consortia financial risk remains unclear

22-Jul-2010
Healthwatch to advise patients on choice

22-Jul-2010
Consortia to 'challenge' GP practices on quality and productivity

22-Jul-2010
GP consortia should not start from 'clean sheet' on public involvement

22-Jul-2010
DH asks if size limits should be set for GP consortia

22-Jul-2010
NHS democracy proposals unveiled

22-Jul-2010
Answering the NHS's £14bn productivity question

22 July 2010
Concerns over standard of specialist care

22 July 2010
Known unknowns form the white paper’s core

22 July 2010
Media Watch: eye-watering, mouth-watering NHS cash

22 July 2010
New outcomes measures may be de facto targets

22 July 2010
Nicholson warns of tightening central grip over PCTs and providers

22 July 2010
PCTs should ‘reinvent’ themselves, says Britnell

22 July 2010
PCTs told to hand over resources to GP commissioners

22-Jul-2010
Sir David praises 'heroic' PCT and SHA managers

22 July 2010
Hard-nosed Lansley will be no ‘softie’ in negotiations

21-Jul-2010
GP consortia will be a ‘minority’ interest

21-Jul-2010
Information revolution 'could confuse public'

21-Jul-2010
Long term care funding commission set terms of reference

20-Jul-2010
BMA leader urges GPs to hire NHS managers rather than private companies

19-Jul-2010
Laurence Buckman's email to BMA GP members

19-Jul-2010
HSJ webcast - white paper major challenge for PCT management

19-Jul-2010
NHS Confederation calls for strong local leadership

15 July 2010
Council role to supplant PCTs

14-Jul-2010
Tougher tack on increasing foundation trusts

14-Jul-2010
CQC chief welcomes 'formalisation' of relationship with Monitor

14-Jul-2010
Consultants criticise white paper's lack of acute focus

14-Jul-2010
Board will have power to assign GPs to consortia

14-Jul-2010
SHA and PCT jobs crisis ahead

14-Jul-2010
White paper timeline

14-Jul-2010
GPs refuse to be Lansley's 'whipping boys'

14-Jul-2010
All new blood makes up health committee

14-Jul-2010
Michael White: no aspect of the NHS will be untouched

14-Jul-2010
Health white paper word cloud

13-Jul-2010
Managers have been unfairly served by the rushed reforms

13-Jul-2010
NHS staff to find out if their jobs are at risk by September

13-Jul-2010
Nicholson warns DH may 'take powers' over £1.7bn of PCT allocations this year

13-Jul-2010
David Nicholson's letter to the NHS

13-Jul-2010
Nicholson tells chief executives: don't be defensive about change

13-Jul-2010
Exclusive survey: HSJ readers unenthused by white paper

13-Jul-2010
NHS to take 'immediate steps' to split oversight of commissioning and provision

13-Jul-2010
Lansley signals FT removal from government balance sheet

12-Jul-2010
Outcome goals to replace performance framework

12-Jul-2010
White paper gives NHS board right to stipulate PBC membership

12-Jul-2010
Monitor and CQC to run 'joint licence' from April 2012

12-Jul-2010
Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant

12-Jul-2010
White paper: DH unit will force foundation trust move

12-Jul-2010
HealthWatch to be part of the CQC

12-Jul-2010
Government warned reform plans will 'turn NHS upside down'

12-Jul-2010
Coalition hands public health to councils

12-Jul-2010
Public health directors move to local authorities

12-Jul-2010
HSJ snap survey: how will the white paper affect you?

12-Jul-2010
The health white paper in full - Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS

12-Jul-2010
Lansley: 'no job left for PCTs'

12-Jul-2010
Watch live: Lansley details NHS reforms

12-Jul-2010
NHS blueprint due today

12-Jul-2010
Weak evidence supporting GP commissioning plan - Civitas

12-Jul-2010
DH forced to rethink NHS vision

8 July 2010
It’s public health, Jamie, but not as we know it…

8 July 2010
Media Watch: Lansley's plans for wholesale change

7-Jul-2010
Lansley announces public health 'vision'

7-Jul-2010

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