Health Service Journal
James Clayton
James Clayton is a health policy freelance journalist.
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Clinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'
5-Jan-2012
Clinical commissioning is behind schedule in many areas with the transfer of staff from primary care trusts stalled and just over a year remaining before the NHS’s structural overhaul is supposed to be complete. -
Outpatient appointments increase by 4.5pc
21-Dec-2011
The number of outpatient appointments increased by 4.5 per cent last year, according to NHS Information Centre figures. -
Scrapped NHS IT System to cost a further £2bn
15-Dec-2011
The American company behind the National Programme for IT has predicted it will earn up to another £2bn from its work with the NHS. -
NHS pension scheme deficit predicted within three years
7-Dec-2011
The Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast the NHS pension scheme will pay out more money than it receives in 2013-14, meaning it will require a £500m Treasury bailout. -
Views from the picket line
1-Dec-2011
James Clayton, a reporter on the HSJ and Nursing Times news desk, spent yesterday talking to nurses and other health workers on the picket lines in London.
