All Andy Burnham articles – Page 20
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CommentMedia Watch: Andy Burnham and patient experience
This week the press went to town on how health secretary Andy Burnham is planning to shackle hospital budgets to patient experience for the first time.
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CommentMichael White on the election battle
This week’s TUC conference signals the start of the political season, when the rhetorical volume gets turned up.
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NewsGovernment set to issue a five year spending plan for NHS
November’s pre-budget report could spell out the government’s health spending plans not just for the next 18 months but for the next five years, HSJ has been told.
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NewsLondon health integration plan on the table
London’s boroughs are on the verge of sealing a deal to dramatically boost integration between councils and the NHS
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CommentMichael White on NHS spending and the McKinsey report
As if last week wasn’t more than usually nightmare-ish enough for the NHS’s managerial officer class, with a convicted murderer’s birthmarks and the leaked McKinsey report providing only two of many horrid headlines, this week started with a fresh jolt.
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NewsFTs fear biddable successor to Bill Moyes
Foundation trust leaders are concerned ministers will try to appoint a government-friendly chair of Monitor, potentially threatening their independence.
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NewsFoundation trust pipeline is not blocked, insists DH
The Department of Health has denied claims the foundation trust pipeline is “on hold” despite a significant slowing of authorisations. Last year, there were 25 authorisations between January and August; this year there have been 10.
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CommentMichael White on US healthcare and NHS politics
Oh dear. Turn your back on the politicians for a few days’ holiday and when you get back they’re engaged in all-too-familiar pre-election skirmishing about the NHS being safe in our hands - but not in the other lot’s.
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NewsTory NHS would be 'biggest quango in the world', Andy Burnham claims
Andy Burnham has criticised Conservative plans for the NHS if they won the next general election by saying the health service would become the “biggest quango in the world”.
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NewsAnti-NHS row MEP 'should lose whip'
Conservative leader David Cameron should withdraw the whip from the MEP who criticised the NHS on US television, according to Labour MPs.
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NewsKieran Brett to be Andy Burnham's adviser
A former adviser to Tony Blair is expected to begin as health secretary Andy Burnham’s policy special adviser within the next two weeks, HSJ can reveal. Kieran Brett, who has recently been working as a consultant to the NHS, was Mr Blair’s special adviser on home affairs.
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NewsAndy Burnham seeks swine flu critical care assurance
Health secretary Andy Burnham has asked the NHS for assurance it can increase critical care capacity to cope with a potential surge in swine flu.
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NewsLords raise questions on swine flu preparedness
The Lords science and technology committee has highlighted “serious questions” about the UK’s preparedness for swine flu.
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NewsMonitor accuses DH of undermining FT independence
Foundation trusts and Monitor have warned that the details of the government’s plans to de-authorise foundations risk “undermining” the trusts and their regulator.
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NewsMinisters deny swine flu website was late starter
A claim that the new swine flu helpline and website should have been launched earlier has been dismissed by ministers.
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NewsWill the public back the national care service?
The long awaited social care green paper proposes reforms including a new ‘national care service’, but what are the implications and where will the money come from?
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NewsManagers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic
Managers and staff are confident the NHS is coping successfully with swine flu, an HSJ and Nursing Times survey reveals.
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Cost of NHS growth revealed
Government spending on public services such as education will need to be cut by as much as 4.5 per cent a year if politicians’ promises to give the NHS real terms growth are met.
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NewsMinisters to exert power over Monitor
Health secretary Andy Burnham plans to change the law so ministers can instruct foundation trust regulator Monitor to intervene where organisations are failing.
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NewsAndy Burnham dismisses Mid Staffs inquiry as 'too distracting'
Health secretary Andy Burnham has defended his decision to stop short of launching a full public inquiry into failures at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, telling HSJ he thought it would be “distracting to managers”.