Health Service Journal
Nick Golding
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Budget round-up: Osborne heralds tax cuts and local pay rates
21-Mar-2012
Chancellor George Osborne has suggested local pay rates will be introduced for some public sector workers. -
Consultants pass vote of no confidence in Andrew Lansley
8-Mar-2012
Consultants yesterday defied British Medical Association chair Hamish Meldrum to pass a motion of no confidence in the health secretary. -
Two thousand campaigners rally against Health Bill
8-Mar-2012
Over 2,000 NHS staff and campaigners heard union leaders, clinicians and managers denounce the Health Bill at a rally against the government’s planned reforms in Westminster last night. -
Postponement of NHS pension contributions hike for lower paid
8-Dec-2011
An extra 530,000 lower paid staff have been spared from making extra pension contributions next year after the Department of Health made a concession in the long-running pensions dispute. -
Joint commissioning plans need to 'go further', Future Forum lead urges
3-Nov-2011
Clinical commissioning groups need to work with councils to increase the scale of joint commissioning arrangements, a key figure in the NHS Future Forum has told HSJ. -
Unison 'will not campaign' against all reconfigurations
4-Oct-2011
A senior Unison figure has revealed to HSJ that the union is prepared to accept some hospital reconfigurations. -
The government risks severing links with valuable volunteers
3-Aug-2011
It was inevitable that a government regarding the empowerment of individuals and communities as its raison d’être would seek to instil a greater public voice into the health service. -
Nicholson urges MPs to end obsession with bed numbers
8-Jul-2011
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has challenged politicians to accept that health service modernisation will mean reducing the number of hospital beds. -
Exclusive: Lansley says hospitals exempt from 'over-managed' claim
8-Jul-2011
Andrew Lansley has used an exclusive HSJ interview to exempt the acute sector from his criticism that the NHS is over-managed. -
Lansley urges NHS to 'regain momentum' following reform debate
7-Jul-2011
Andrew Lansley has urged the health service to “regain the momentum” lost in the “flux” sparked by the government’s reform plans. -
Eleven acute trusts failed dignity and nutrition inspections - CQC
7-Jul-2011
At least 11 hospital trusts have failed to meet essential standards for dignity and nutrition in a Care Quality Commission investigation, it has been revealed. -
Warner: DH resisting Dilnot reforms
7-Jul-2011
The Department of Health is resisting reforms required to implement the fairer system of social care funding demanded by the Dilnot commission, one of the commission’s architects has claimed. -
No requirement to include doctors and nurses on boards
13-Jun-2011
Commissioning consortia should not be required to formally include doctors and nurses on their boards, the NHS Future Forum has recommended. -
LINks voice not being heard at PCT board meetings
24-Feb-2010
A quarter of local involvement networks do not attend primary care trust board meetings. -
Acute trusts could pay for post discharge care
24-Feb-2010
The Conservatives would give acute trusts financial responsibility for home care following discharge as a way of incentivising the prevention of emergency readmissions. -
Chief executive to depart from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust
19-Feb-2010
The chief executive of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust is to leave to take on a new role improving the efficiency of British agriculture. -
Tameside Hospital faces regulator scrutiny
19-Feb-2010
Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust is to face a raft of reviews into its services and operations in response to public concerns about high death rates and poor hygiene standards. -
New health minister unveiled
19-Feb-2010
The Department of Health has confirmed Baroness Thornton as its latest health minister. -
PCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation
11 February 2010
Primary care trusts face having to renegotiate contracts for out of hours provision. -
Media Watch: cancer care pledge
11 February 2010
Gordon Brown’s pledge to provide free one-to-one homecare by specialist nurses for cancer patients divided the newspapers. -
MPs demand management changes at Tameside
10-Feb-2010
Health secretary Andy Burnham has asked regulators to investigate Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust after local MPs demanded management changes. -
Plans to scrap GP practice boundaries draw fire
3-Feb-2010
The British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance last week stepped up their opposition to government plans to scrap GP practice boundaries within 12 months. -
Local partnerships fail on children's health priorities
3-Feb-2010
Primary care trusts and local councils have failed to work together to successfully prioritise improving the health of under-fives, an Audit Commission report has warned. -
MPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
21 January 2010
Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told. -
Andy Burnham insists home care bill is affordable
14 January 2010
Health secretary Andy Burnham has defended the Personal Care at Home Bill amid fears it will divert money from other NHS priorities and lead to fresh conflict between primary care trusts and councils. -
Politics ‘distracting’ from NHS quality drive
14 January 2010
Political pressure and rapid leadership turnover are hampering the health service’s ability to improve quality of care, two reports have warned. -
Gas supply restriction looms for 100 NHS trusts
11-Jan-2010
Approximately 100 NHS organisations could see their gas supply disrupted if soaring consumption leads to restrictions on gas use. -
Andy Burnham warns of limits to localism in social care
7-Jan-2010
Andy Burnham has warned there are limits to localism in social care provision, insisting users regard fairness as more important than devolution. -
ADSS chief in unitary warning
20-Oct-2005
Published: 20/10/2005 Volume 115 No. 5978 Page 8 -
Fears over 'retrograde' PCT mergers
18-Aug-2005
PRIMARY CARE Concern among unitary authorities that coterminosity will be lost in reconfiguration
