All Andy Burnham articles – Page 8
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NewsA&E departments 'could reach breaking point'
The prime minister has been accused of leaving accident and emergency departments on the “brink of a serious crisis” as a series of surveys reveal the concerns of patients, nurses and health service leaders.
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NewsNHS spends £1.4bn on redundancy pay-offs
Ministers have been accused of wasting £1.4bn of NHS funding on redundancy pay-offs.
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CommentMichael White: Burnham thinks big
The shadow health secretary wants Labour to have clear, gimmick free policies
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CommentMichael White: profound questions about booze and fags
It is too easy to cry “outrage” over packaging and prices
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CommentMichael White: the NHS's birthday presents
As a 65 year old, the NHS should also have someone caring for it
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NewsHunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16
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CommentHunt is correct to stick with the CQC
Heads have rolled at the regulator and more will follow
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NewsRelegate CCGs to advisory role, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said clinical commissioning groups should be relegated to an advisory role because councils were more in tune with their local populations than GPs.
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NewsBurnham backs central planning
A centrally planned health service is “inherently” more efficient than a marketised one, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told the NHS Confederation annual conference.
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NewsHWB architect expresses concern at Burnham plan
A key architect of the health and wellbeing board model has expressed concern at possible Labour proposals to make the boards the NHS’s main commissioning bodies.
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Nicholson: Transferring NHS funds to social care would mean 'radical changes' to hospitals
The government must accept “radical changes” to hospital services if it diverts more NHS funding to shore up the social care budget, the head of the NHS England has said.
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CommentMichael White: we're entitled to be sceptical of Labour's plans
A different version of austerity and the NHS after 2015
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NewsMost leaders would leave if groups' budgets were given to councils, survey finds
Large numbers of clinical commissioning group leaders would leave their roles if the groups’ budgets were given to local authorities, as has been proposed by the shadow health secretary.
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CommentMichael White: two cheers for the Queen's Speech
The pitfalls of the Care Bill and health tourism
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CommentMichael White: Hunt picks a fight with the nurses
Salvoes have been lobbed between ministers and the RCN
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NewsLabour care review lead not 'tied down' by NHS budget handover
Sir John Oldham, the chair of the Labour commission set up to examine ways of joining up health and social care, has pledged to keep an “open mind” on how the integration could be best achieved.
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NewsJohn Oldham to lead Labour 'commission' on integration
Labour will set up an independent commission to examine how health and social care can be integrated to meet what Ed Miliband claims is the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS.
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