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CommentTime to talk about referral to treatment waiting times
Referral to treatment waiting times were a tremendous success, but their future is now in doubt. Rob Findlay notes that the time has come to ask: is there a better alternative?
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NewsBurnham: Prime minister 'misleading public over NHS'
Andy Burnham to say that David Cameron was ‘not up front’ about his intentions for reform during the 2010 election campaign
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NewsConcern over rate of PCT talent drain
MPs and GPs are concerned primary care trusts have already begun losing some of their best managers ahead of their proposed abolition.
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NewsHealth Hotel reopens for 2010
The first real acid test of how closely the coalition’s junior partner is allied to the proposed health reforms will come next week at the Liberal Democrats’ annual conference in Liverpool.
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NewsLondon in talks over PCT mergers
NHS London and the Department of Health are in talks about merging London’s 31 primary care trusts into just six bodies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAll new blood makes up health committee
The Commons health select committee is to be entirely made up of MPs who have not served on it before - although several of them have a background in health or health related fields.
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HSJ KnowledgeGetting to know your MP
As a retired hospital doctor, my work in the NHS was a huge advantage when I started as an MP, because I already knew many consultants and GPs, as well as managers of all the local health trusts.
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NewsRevised operating framework to pave way for abolition of waiting targets
A revised NHS operating framework due to be issued by the Department of Health next week will set out a timetable to abolish several NHS waiting time targets by 2011.
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NewsPCTs to lose responsibility for GPs
Primary care trusts will have their responsibilities radically stripped back under plans being developed by health secretary Andrew Lansley.
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NewsLansley outlines NHS plans in first public speech
Andrew Lansley has given further details of his plans for the NHS in his first major public speech as health secretary.
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NewsLansley: readmissions move is to drive integration
Penalising trusts for readmissions will push the integration of acute and community care, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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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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CommentPaul Corrigan on the new NHS value for money
One of the impacts of the election result could be that the deep fascination the leadership of the NHS has with the nuances of their secretary of state’s policy will in the near future provide very diminishing returns.
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NewsWill NHS building plans stay on the drawing board?
All spending commitments approved by the DH or Treasury this year have been called in for review as the new government seeks massive savings in the public sector. Some major NHS development plans now face uncertainty, reports Alison Moore
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CommentMichael White: the new Lib-Con government
Well, it’s not going to be dull, is it? At a stretch you could even say that one of the dullest things about the new Lib-Con government is that Andrew Lansley was appointed health secretary.
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LeaderDare one step further and keep Lansley in post for the full term
Andrew Lansley is the best prepared health secretary of modern politics. During his time as shadow health spokesman, Labour went through five health secretaries.
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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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NewsUCLH plan to rescue Barts from PFI crisis
Senior managers in London are cooking up an ambitious plan to rescue Barts and the Royal London Trust from its unaffordable £1bn private finance initiative deal.
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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