All Emergency budget 2010 articles – Page 2

  • falling graph
    News

    Monitor issues warning on declining foundation profits

    2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The financial fortunes of foundation trusts slipped in the last months of 2009-10, the latest report from their regulator Monitor shows.

  • Michael White
    Comment

    Michael White on hospital reconfigurations

    2010-06-24T00:00:00Z

    “Oh joy, oh bliss. Now we will get some answers,” I told myself as we were waiting for George Osborne’s emergency cuts budget - (we are still waiting for details of Andrew Lansley’s Brave New NHS World).

  • Media Watch: public sector pensions
    Comment

    Media Watch: public sector pensions

    2010-06-24T00:00:00Z

    In the build-up to Tuesday’s Budget, it was open season on public sector pensions.

  • Professor Sir Michael Marmot said he was "nervous" about the effect of the Budget on health inequalities
    News

    Sir Michael Marmot 'nervous' about health equalities implications of budget

    2010-06-23T14:37:00Z

    Sir Michael Marmot, author of the “Fair Society, Healthy Lives” report published earlier this year, has told a plenary session of the NHS Confederation conference that the changes to the benefits system made him “nervous about the redistribution” of wealth, and the effects that would have on health.

  • Sir Hugh
    News

    Sir Hugh Taylor resigns from DH

    2010-06-22T10:46:00Z

    Department of Health permanent secretary Sir Hugh Taylor has told colleagues he is leaving the department to take up the role of chair of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust.

  • Noel Plumridge
    Comment

    Noel Plumridge on NHS pay and pensions

    2010-06-17T00:00:00Z

    The extra £6bn of spending cutbacks in 2010-11 announced by George Osborne in May appears to have had only a marginal impact on NHS spending, but is unlikely to be true of June’s emergency budget for 2011-12.  It’s going to hurt in the months and years ahead.

  • Andrew Lansley
    News

    PCTs to lose responsibility for GPs

    2010-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will have their responsibilities radically stripped back under plans being developed by health secretary Andrew Lansley.

  • News

    Department of Health spared immediate spending cuts

    2010-05-24T11:20:00Z

    The Department of Health’s overall spending will not be reduced in the current financial year, the Treasury has confirmed.

  • Lansley to slash NHS management costs
    News

    Lansley to slash NHS management costs

    2010-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Lansley, the new health secretary, has warned Department of Health staff to brace themselves for a significant cut in their budget this year.