Health Service Journal
Jim Dunton
Jim Dunton is a reporter on Local Government Chronicle.
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Councils should expect 'enormous' cost variations on Dilnot proposals
6-Dec-2011
Councils should expect enormous variations in the costs of implementing the Dilnot Commission’s proposals for funding adult social care, MPs were told today. -
Dilnot social care proposals are 'regressive', says Lansley
26-Oct-2011
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has told a meeting of councillors that he believes the Dilnot Commission’s proposals on care funding reform are “regressive”, HSJ understands. -
Council chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
6-Oct-2011
Council chief executives are understood to have staged a backlash over the Department of Health’s bid to get them to “sign off” local public-health spending figures. -
Lansley announces 75 HealthWatch 'pathfinders'
5-Aug-2011
Ministers reveal almost half of all upper-tier and unitary authorities will trial the new patient-involvement groups -
NHS lags behind in social enterprise drive
5-Aug-2011
Reality of opening up health services social enterprises not living up to government rhetoric, King’s Fund argues -
Dilnot commission confirms cap on care contributions
4-Jul-2011
Andrew Dilnot has confirmed expectations that his commission on funding social care would propose a cap of £35,000 on individual contributions for their care today. -
NHS changes could spell new comms burdens
17-Jun-2011
Government plans for a nationwide shared-service communications model for NHS primary care risks wiping out local expertise and increasing burdens on councils, the Department of Health has been warned. -
Public health funding argument 'is over'
10-Jun-2011
A senior Department of Health official has given a strong indication that councils have lost the argument over ringfenced public health budgets and that the government will not turn on the issue. -
Government public health response held until July
12-May-2011
A government response to the public health white paper consultation will not be published until July, Department of Health officials have told MPs. -
Duty to co-operate on social care proposed for NHS and councils
11-May-2011
Proposals for a duty to co-operate between the NHS and councils in relation to providing social care have been unveiled by the Law Commission. -
Adult social services face £300m cuts
20-Apr-2011
Local authorities expect to cut around £300m from adult social services this year, despite receiving more than £1.5bn from the NHS and Department of Health. -
Advocacy groups requiring HealthWatch role assistance
30-Mar-2011
Around one-third of the patients advocacy groups expected to become Local HealthWatch scrutiny teams need to up their game before taking on their new roles as part of the government’s health reforms, according to a health minister. -
Southern Cross insists lease issues can be fixed
30-Mar-2011
The chief executive of troubled care-home provider Southern Cross has insisted the company’s future can be secured through negotiations with landlords over the coming weeks. -
Better data sharing 'could boost social-care prevention'
24-Feb-2011
Councils and the NHS should be sharing data more effectively to better predict which residents are most likely to need “intensive social care”, according to health think-tank the Nuffield Trust. -
Loss of 80,000 care beds will intensify bed-blocking
24-Feb-2011
Council spending cuts are predicted to result in the loss of 81,000 care home beds across the UK over the next 10 years, intensifying NHS bed-blocking problems, BUPA has warned. -
Ministers warned PCT clustering 'will damage innovators'
21-Feb-2011
Seven areas with high levels of health and social care integration have formally warned the government that its “inflexible” approach to NHS reform will force them to dismantle their current arrangements. -
Health secretary to have extensive powers to 'prescribe' public health functions
20-Jan-2011
The Health and Social Care Bill includes wide and varied powers for the secretary of state to dictate council’s public health activities. -
Government scraps adult social services performance assessment
4-Nov-2010
Annual performance assessments that rate local councils on adult social care are to be scrapped once this year’s ratings are announced later this month. -
Burstow's 'disappointment' over personal budgets
4-Nov-2010
Care services minister Paul Burstow has spoken of his disappointment at the number of people whose care packages are paid for with a personal budget. -
Coalition hands public health to councils
12-Jul-2010
Health white paper gives key roles to local government -
Will the public back the national care service?
23 July 2009
The long awaited social care green paper proposes reforms including a new ‘national care service’, but what are the implications and where will the money come from? -
Councils told to learn lessons from NHS on recruitment and retention
3-Jul-2009
Councils should learn lessons from the NHS to improve recruitment and retention of social workers, the chair of the government’s social work task force said. -
CQC seeks feedback
2-Jun-2009
The Care Quality Commission has launched a consultation on the registration standards it plans to enforce from April next year.
