PCTs bend pay rules to fill senior jobs
Primary care trusts are being forced to bend official pay rules to fill board level posts at a time when recruitment problems are predicted to deepen.
Close hospital beds to save money, says report
Some regions of the country should close more than a quarter of their hospital beds to save on running costs and improve care for individual patients, a think tank has said.
Bill Moyes teams with Paul Corrigan in policy talks
Two heavyweights of Labour’s health policy have teamed up with a think tank close to the Conservatives to argue for a curtailing of the Department of Health’s power and remit.
King's Fund sets out social care funding proposals
Elderly people who need social care should foot part of the bill so current standards can be maintained as costs soar over the next 15 years, according to a new study.
Public sector budget cut warning
Councils and public sector workers should prepare themselves for “considerable pain” as funding cuts of £500m begin to take hold from next year, the Welsh spending watchdog has warned.
Nick Clegg warns against 'ramming through cuts'
Britain could face massive political and social unrest on a scale similar to Greece if the next government cannot rally the public behind plans to cut the £178bn deficit, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will warn today.
Alistair Darling rules out Budget spending cuts
Alistair Darling has made it clear that next week’s Budget will not spell out any new spending cuts.
Business group warns on public finances
Repairing the public finances will require tax rises or spending cuts of up to £15bn a year, a business group has warned.
Research points to huge out of hours spending variations
The Patients Association has criticised primary care trusts over significant variations in out of hours spending.
Trust 'named and shamed' over plans to cut beds
Health minister Mike O’Brien has carried out his threat to “name and shame” trusts that cut services and blame the economy - using a parliamentary debate to highlight the case of a trust planning 200 bed cuts.
£8.4bn funding for Scottish NHS
Funding for the NHS in Scotland will rise to a record £8.4bn, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.
DH spent £2m on first class travel
The Department of Health spent more than £2m on first class travel in the last 12 months, official figures show.
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‘Preferred provider’ policy unravels
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NHS managers demand power to fire GPs
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Confed calls for action on tough political choices
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UKIP would scrap PCTs and make managers ‘happier’
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£21bn spent on health inequalities has had little impact
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PCTs' spending on carers under scrutiny
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Senior NHS managers' pay to be frozen
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Budget set for 24 March
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PCTs preparing for cuts not savings, warn GPs
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NHS reform 'likely to be slow'
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Pre-election Budget expected this month
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Pre-election Budget to avoid spending allocations
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David Cameron pledges radical cuts from day one
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DH launches £8m campaign to improve early diagnosis of cancer
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Lansley urges OFT to investigate preferred provider case
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Excluding independent sector from NHS services 'potentially unlawful'
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Virgin buys into GP healthcare
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NHS market reforms are not linked with better care
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NHS managers may be heroes of the moment
Despite their endless depiction by the media and politicians as a scourge on the health service, research is showing that where numbers of NHS managers are strong, efficiency is often found working alongside quality. Charlotte Santry reports
NHS car parking: driven to distraction
Hospital car parking has become an impassioned talking point. While it may seem a side issue to the real work of healthcare, the heated arguments over charging won’t subside until policies are seen as fair and fixed, writes Joe Farrington-Douglas
Andrew Lansley points to joint powers in public health
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley wants a Conservative government to keep a firm hand on public health. In a joint interview with HSJ and sister title Local Government Chronicle, he tells Rebecca Evans how local collaboration will be vital
