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NewsMonitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
Foundation trusts should be freed from one of the shackles put in place during the Labour government’s internal battle over their creation, Monitor’s new chair has said.
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NewsSecond London SHA board member resigns
A second member of NHS London’s board has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s call for the strategic health authority to “halt” its reconfiguration programme.
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Department of Health in-year costs under pressure
The Department of Health was spared in the chancellor’s £6.2bn in-year cut in public spending outlined on Monday but it is still being required to make significant recyclable savings from its arm’s length bodies and central budgets.
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NewsLondon SHA chair resigns
NHS London’s chairman Sir Richard Sykes has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s intervention to “halt” the strategic health authority’s Healthcare for London plan devised by former health minister Lord Ara Darzi.
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NewsBMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries
Removing general practice boundaries will increase bureaucracy and costs at a time when the new government is under pressure to make savings, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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NewsHSJ exclusive: SHAs to be abolished by 2012
Strategic health authority chiefs have been told they will be abolished by April 2012, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLansley: NHS must review reconfiguration plans
Planned service reconfigurations must be reconsidered under “strengthened criteria” set out by the new health secretary today, including support from GP commissioners.
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NewsNHS targets may be scrapped within weeks
The new government is considering scrapping controversial waiting times targets this year, HSJ understands.
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NewsCoalition combines NHS policies: Tory competition with Lib Dem local democracy
The Liberal Democrats’ proposals for locally elected health boards have been incorporated into the government’s formal coalition agreement.
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NewsWarning on hidden NHS spending cuts
The health service should be alert to the “real risk” that spending areas outside of health will “leak” into the NHS’s budget responsibilities, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsManagers welcome Burstow
The appointment of Paul Burstow as minister of state for health has been welcomed by NHS managers keen to see social care reform move apace.
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CommentCally Bann: it's going to be crap and we're all in it together
So now we know. From the bellowing pomposity at High and Mighty Hall, through the bemused gentlefolk of Meek and Mild Manor to the elitist piety at Pool and Field Palace our glorious NHS has spoken: it’s going to be crap and we’re all in it together.
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CommentCoalition health policy: all action on the united front
NHS fortunes will rely on Tory and Lib Dem harmony as Andrew Lansley steps into the role of health secretary
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NewsLansley confirms London reconfiguration halted
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has called a halt to NHS reconfiguration in London.
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NewsLansley calls a halt to Darzi in London
The new government has put former health minister Lord Darzi’s major reconfiguration plan for London under review, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsCoalition to deliver emergency Budget on 22 June
Chancellor George Osborne today announced that he will deliver his first emergency Budget on 22 June, exactly six weeks after the new coalition government took office.
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NewsTwo junior health minister posts announced
Number 10 has so far announced two junior ministerial appointments at the Department of Health, including one Liberal Democrat.
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NewsLansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration
The new health secretary has said the NHS might face greater efficiency savings than the 3 per cent planned for and that GPs would have a say on hospital reconfiguration.
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NewsConcern over safety of £1.7bn set aside for 'non-recurrent' NHS spending
NHS finance sources are concerned the new government may claw back the £1.7bn set aside for “non-recurrent” spending.
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NewsNHS budget will increase in real terms, coalition document confirms
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have agreed there will be a real terms spending increase in the NHS budget.