All Conservatives articles – Page 14
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Comment
The Care Bill is the wrong medicine for the NHS
Legislation is a bizarre and inadequate attempt to fix a spurious problem
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News
Lamb calls for cross-party talks on NHS
Health minister Norman Lamb has called for cross-party talks to discuss the long-term future of the NHS.
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News
NHS contracts firm gave to Tories
An American health firm which runs key NHS services has donated £17,000 to the Tories, Electoral Commission records show.
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News
Health adviser to prime minister appointed
Nick Seddon, deputy director of right-leaning think tank Reform, has been appointed health and social care adviser to the prime minister.
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Blogs
Politics and the English language
End Game has been a fan of minister for laughs Anna Soubry maverick style ever since she arrived at Richmond House.She’s a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm and she’s peppered her latest interview with hearty profanity.Limbering up, she declared a builder’s sign to be “fucking useless” ...
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Comment
Thatcher ducked the NHS fight, we have to face it
Thatcher’s handling of the NHS offers lessons for reformers
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News
Further curbs on foreign NHS use likely
The government will take action to further restrict access to free NHS care for foreign patients, Jeremy Hunt has indicated.
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News
Francis report: Cameron will respond after meeting Mid Staffs families
Prime minister David Cameron has met with families and campaigners ahead of the publication of the Francis report into care failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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News
Labour demands 'honesty' on NHS
Labour has called on the government to provide “a bit of accountability and a bit of honesty” as it accused the coalition of presiding over a “cut” in NHS spending during its term in office.
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News
Preferred candidate for CQC chair will be "hands-on"
The government’s preferred candidate to chair the Care Quality Commission will be “hands-on” and “visible” in the role, he has told MPs.
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News
New CQC chair nominated
The chair of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals is the government’s preferred candidate for the new chair of the Care Quality Commission, HSJ has learned.
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News
Health minister claims MPs becoming more 'responsible' about reconfiguration
New health minister Daniel Poulter has insisted politicians are becoming more far-sighted in their approach to debates about service reconfiguration.
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News
Concern about service change delay as Hunt replaces Lansley
Andrew Lansley has been sacked as health secretary and replaced by Jeremy Hunt, sparking concern about delays to critical NHS service change plans.
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HSJ Local
Minister denies cutting Welsh NHS budget
PERFORMANCE: Wales’s health minister Lesley Griffiths has said she will not be taking any lessons from her party’s rivals the Conservatives when it comes to the NHS.
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News
Working time directive comes under attack
Patients’ lives are at risk because of European limits on junior doctors’ hours, MPs have said.
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News
Labour targets NHS reforms in local elections
Ed Miliband has targeted the government’s health reforms as he launched Labour’s local elections campaign, with the promise to govern for the whole country, “not just for the wealthy few”.
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News
Doctors to take on coalition MPs at next election
A group of NHS doctors plan to field candidates against high-profile coalition MPs at the next general election in protest at controversial government health reforms.
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News
'Move on', Nick Clegg to urge Lib Dems
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg will today appeal for frustrated Liberal Democrat activists to “move on” from damaging rows over the NHS and tuition fees.
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News
Exclusive: public split over use of private firms in NHS as Labour doubles poll lead on health
The English people are split down the middle on the use of private companies to provide NHS services, according to exclusive polling data compiled for HSJ.