All Conservative policy articles – Page 14
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Jeremy Hunt: NHS funding will be settled in the summer
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated the Conservatives would meet the NHS’s funding requirements, but declined to specifically say they would increase spending by the £8bn sum identified by national officials.
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Maude calls for more personal budgets and mutuals
Cabinet office minister Francis Maude has said there is ‘much more’ scope for the use of personal budgets in health and social care.
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Blowing the whistle on Labour's relationship with the NHS
What does Miliband’s failure to acknowledge healthcare problems in Wales tell us?
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The 10 year plan won't win Labour the keys to Number 10
Labour’s health strategy lacks flesh on the bones to tempt the electorate
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Ghosts of political past haunt the election run-up
Conservative and Labour grandees pipe up over their party’s policy directions
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Exclusive survey: Low confidence that NHS will hit 2018 paperless goal
Health and IT professionals remain deeply sceptical that the NHS can be paperless by 2018, two years after health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled the ambitious target, exclusive HSJ research has found.
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'NHS in crisis' hyperbole reaches fever pitch as election countdown begins
The election fuels the fire
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Election 2015: Party politics offer little new year cheer
Reality bites for political parties in 2015
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Hospital inspections in marginal seats could swing general election
Hospital inspections could play a role in deciding the outcome of next year’s general election, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.
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Saatchi's Medical Innovation Bill is Branson-esque in its boldness
Experimental proposal prompts soul searching
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No party should feel comfortable with their NHS position yet
None of the parties have had a decisive breakthrough
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Labour 'still plans Health Act repeal'
Labour still intends to repeal the Health Act 2012 despite the shift in focus away from competition in the NHS Five Year Forward View, a shadow health minister has told HSJ.
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Welsh NHS should elect health commissioners, Conservatives say
Elected health commissioners would be introduced to the Welsh NHS under a Conservative administration.
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New bailout conditions for struggling trusts outlined
The government plans to attach new conditions to bailouts for financially struggling trusts, a health minister has revealed.
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Cameron: We will protect the NHS budget
The prime minister has announced at the Conservative Party conference that he would “protect the NHS budget and continue to invest more” in the next parliament
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Cameron promises weekend access and 'named GP'
The prime minister will today promise a Conservative government would give everyone access to a GP seven days a week by 2020, while announcing all patients will have a ‘named GP’ from April next year.