All Health Service Journal articles in 20 January 2011 – Page 2
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HSJ KnowledgeVoluntary sector speaks up on QIPP
Charities are getting more bullish about saying how they can deliver care and savings in health, says Emma Dent
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NewsMPs: NHS white paper lacked 'credible plan'
The Commons health committee has strongly criticised the government’s approach to NHS reform - particularly its “surprise” announcement of the abolition of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
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NewsUS health giant Humana to pull out of UK
The giant American private healthcare firm Humana plans to pull out of the NHS commissioning support market and wind down its UK business within six months, HSJ has learned.
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LeaderPrivate sector takeover not as imminent as some may have it
The week began with a media feeding frenzy around the government’s NHS reforms created by the imminent publication of the health bill. Dire warnings were ten a penny, while the PM adopted a Thatcherite “no alternative” stance.
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NewsPCT grant cuts Dorset shortfall
Dorset county council’s budget shortfall will be cut by £2.8m after an extra government grant was afforded to the county’s primary care trust.
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NewsGeneral hospital wards worse for heart patients
People with heart failure are twice as likely to die if they are admitted to a general hospital ward rather than one specialising in cardiology, research has suggested.
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NewsTory peer almost 'lost will to live' working on Change4Life campaign
A Conservative peer has given a highly critical assessment of her experience of working with the Department of Health on public health campaigns.
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NewsCommissioning board should run large scale 'experiments' - UnitedHealth head
The NHS Commissioning Board should run a series of large scale “experiments” designed to test solutions to the growing burden of chronic disease, UnitedHealth’s president of global health Simon Stevens claimed this week. Successful programmes should be made “part of the NHS benefits package”.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe four challenges facing consortia
In the first part of their series on commissioning, Stephen Hill and colleagues look at how GPs can add value to the process
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NewsPCT directors warned over cluster job conditions
Primary care trust directors are being warned not to move into new cluster roles without firm assurances about pay and job descriptions.
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NewsCancer strategy relies more heavily on charities
Cancer networks are to lose guaranteed funding while the government will rely on investment from charities to achieve its ambition for one to one cancer care.
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NewsNHS market faces closer EU attention
Government plans to allow “any willing provider” to compete for most NHS clinical contracts could expose the health service to challenge under European competition law, experts warn.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: SHAs need to decide their priorities, and soon
One of the more dramatic parts of the 2011-12 operating framework is the withholding, by strategic health authorities, of 2 per cent of primary care trust funding.
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NewsTrust in breach of six CQC standards
One of the Department of Health’s seven “financially challenged” trusts has been found in breach of standards in six separate areas by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsMarmot voices 'nudge' doubts
The president of the British Medical Association has voiced doubts over the government’s “nudge” approach to public health.
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CommentMichael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility
It remains a guiding principle of this column that any policy opposed by the British Medical Association can’t be all bad.
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NewsThe health bill in the news
The NHS was everywhere this week, with heavy coverage ahead of Wednesday’s Health Bill.
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Leader‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery
As the NHS drowns in reform, the danger of distraction grows.
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NewsEarl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
Health minister Earl Howe has denied there is any conflict between opening up healthcare provision to more competition and encouraging collaboration between providers.
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NewsNicholson: NHS commissioning board will step in if consortia falter
In the first interview since his appointment as chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board, Sir David Nicholson has outlined the measures it could take against poorly performing commissioning consortia.