Health Service Journal
Nick Golding
Nick Golding is HSJ's news editor.
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Accountability probe could lead to regulation for managers
9-Oct-2012
The government signalled a possible move towards the regulation of NHS managers as new health secretary Jeremy Hunt launched a probe to determine how they might be held to account for care failures. -
Health minister claims MPs becoming more 'responsible' about reconfiguration
8-Oct-2012
New health minister Daniel Poulter has insisted politicians are becoming more far-sighted in their approach to debates about service reconfiguration. -
The NHS has failed in efforts to improve health and reduce illness
19-Sep-2012
Interview: Duncan Selbie -
Selbie: NHS has not 'done much good'
19-Sep-2012
The new chief executive of Public Health England has said the NHS’s effort to improve health and reduce illness over the past four decades “hasn’t worked and has not been sufficient”. -
Ombudsman seeks wider powers to tackle failure
12-Jul-2012
The health service ombudsman is seeking to broaden the scope of her office’s investigations into complaints about health treatment by probing systemic failings at NHS bodies, HSJ has been told. -
Get doctors off 'pedestals' urges DH patient lead
21-Jun-2012
A key figure in the drive to get patients more involved in their own care has delivered a damning assessment of patient experience in the NHS. -
The fairness debate will put health back on the front pages
3-May-2012
The health sector’s low profile won’t last long. -
Acute trusts absent from local wellbeing boards
12 April 2012
Emerging health and wellbeing boards believe they will successfully shape local health policies and drive service integration. But many boards still lack input from NHS providers, a survey shared exclusively with HSJ reveals. -
Ciarán Devane interview: 'There is a role for top-down control'
2-Feb-2012
As the chief executive of cancer charity MacMillan starts work at the NHS Commissioning Board, he tells HSJ’s news editor Nick Golding that his motivation is to champion the patient. -
PM responds to HSJ's criticisms of reforms
1-Feb-2012
David Cameron has defended his government’s health reforms at prime minister’s question time from the criticisms set out in HSJ’s joint leader with Nursing Times and the BMJ. -
RCN chief: NHS facing 'toughest year'
12-Jan-2012
The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive and general secretary has warned the NHS faces its “toughest year”, with specialist nurses losing their jobs and vulnerable patients “in the firing line”. -
Embrace NHS competition, Milburn tells Labour
12-Dec-2011
Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has warned his successors in the party to back competition in the health service and adopt a more reformist outlook. -
HSJ interview: Nicholson and Flory prepare the ground for CCGs
29-Nov-2011
The NHS chief executive has called for an end to criticism of managers, hours after the health secretary said resources had been “wasted” on them and criticised their top-down “control”. -
Nicholson: 'End criticism of managers'
24-Nov-2011
The NHS chief executive has called for an end of criticism of health service managers, hours after the health secretary said too much money had been “wasted” on them. -
Less haste would have led to less waste
23-Nov-2011
HSJ’s revelation that primary care trusts’ initial calculations of public health spending were about 10 per cent wide of the mark does little to inspire confidence in reform of the area. -
NHS sees first CO2 reductions from buildings
22-Nov-2011
The NHS has reduced the carbon footprint resulting from energy use in its buildings for the first time. However, trusts have been told that further energy savings of £40m are possible -
Lansley's candidate for Commissioning Board chair narrowly wins MPs' backing
19-Oct-2011
The health secretary’s preferred candidate to become NHS Commissioning Board chair has only won endorsement from the House of Commons health committee on the casting vote of its chair. -
Government sets out limits of Health Bill compromise
3-Oct-2011
The government is prepared to compromise over how the Health Bill sets out the health secretary’s duties to ensure the NHS provides services, HSJ has been told. -
Social enterprise loses out in £450m community services contract
19-Sep-2011
A nurse and therapist-run social enterprise praised by the Cabinet Office for cutting costs has lost out to a private provider for a £450m contract. -
New set of listening exercise questions unveiled
18-Aug-2011
Key questions for NHS stakeholders to consider as part of the second round of the government’s listening exercise have been unveiled by the Department of Health. -
The vision for public health dims as confusion surrounds spending
21-Jul-2011
When health secretary Andrew Lansley unveiled the public health white paper last November he called for a “paradigm shift” by which professionals would be locally empowered to bring about the improvements that a plethora of central initiatives failed to achieve under New Labour. -
Lansley heralds change in size and role of acutes
13-Jul-2011
Andrew Lansley has used an HSJ interview to signal significant changes in the size and role of acute hospitals, although he insisted there was no certainty that hospitals would close. -
Andrew Taylor to leave competition panel
4-Jul-2011
Andrew Taylor has announced he will leave his role as director of the Cooperation and Competition Panel at the end of August.
