All Andrew Lansley articles – Page 46
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CommentMichael White: the Queen's Speech
For a seven minute royal speech which was criticised for not once mentioning what David Cameron called “the three letters that should be in any Queen’s Speech” - NHS - it was quite a boisterous occasion for health and social services. So let us start on a positive party political ...
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NewsConservative win could kill local NHS shake-up plans
The Conservatives have pledged to scrap current government proposals for reconfiguration in major services if they are voted into power. What could this mean for the many local changes already being deliberated? Alison Moore reports
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CommentJon Restell: NHS managers on the ropes
Everyone I talk to assumes that managers in the health service must be sweating.
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CommentMichael White: lessons from US healthcare
I stumbled on a way of thinking about NHS budgets the other day which I hadn’t previously encountered.
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Information10 Andrew Lansley
The electorate now believes the NHS is safe in Tory hands. That is down to Andrew Lansley.
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NewsAndrew Lansley warns against ‘chilling’ preferred provider policy
A Conservative government would return to an “any willing provider” model, the shadow health secretary has said.
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CommentMichael White on health debates
Handy Andy Burnham, our youthful health secretary and Clark Kent lookalike, slipped out of Britain on Tuesday, heading west towards Washington - safely out of the row over home secretary Alan Johnson’s rash dismissal of David Nutt.
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NewsTories pledge marginal pricing under PbR tariff
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has promised the payment by results tariff would allow “marginal pricing” under a Conservative government.
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NewsTories need clear vision and a stronger message on health
The Conservatives have pronounced themselves the party of reform but are too wedded to the status quo. Andrew Haldenby argues they need to spend more energy advocating change
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CommentMedia Watch: News of the World becomes preferred provider
It doesn’t happen often, but this week the intricacies of health policy have made it into the tabloids.
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NewsHealth check shows NHS is not focusing on quality - Andrew Lansley
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the annual health check showed there was not enough focus on improving quality in the NHS.
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NewsStephen Dorrell calls on Andrew Lansley to make his vision clear
The most recent Conservative health secretary has said shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley must articulate a clearer and more inspiring vision of the Conservatives’ plans for the health service.
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NewsTories clarify Osborne's pension cap and pay freeze
NHS managers are excluded from shadow chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to cap public sector pension payouts at £50,000 a year, the Conservatives have told HSJ.
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NewsFormer Tory health secretary calls for more 'sunlight' in Andrew Lansley's NHS vision
The most recent Conservative health secretary has said Andrew Lansley must articulate a clearer and more inspiring vision of the Conservatives’ plans for the health service.
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CommentMedia Watch: party conference season
Unsurprisingly with the party conference season in full swing, there is plenty of NHS politics in the papers this week.
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CommentAndrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform
Competition, choice and clinician power: the shadow health secretary lists the ingredients that he would use to make NHS outcomes the best in the world
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LeaderAndrew Lansley and NHS managers must face hard truths about cuts
The policies which shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley outlined to this week’s Conservative conference are not the answer to the exam question he will be set - save £20bn.
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NewsNHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn
NHS organisations are preparing to have to shave a third off their running costs if the Conservatives take power next year.
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NewsAndrew Lansley pledges to slash NHS bureaucracy
Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley has promised that a Tory government would cut spending on NHS admin by a third.
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NewsCan the Conservatives mix cutting and caring?
Editor Richard Vize discusses whether the health policies of a Conservative government would deliver the right improvements for the NHS long after the applause of the voters has faded away