All Government/DH policy articles – Page 100
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NewsExclusive: Work not started on minimum safe staffing levels
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE, has not been asked to begin drawing up evidence-based minimum safe staffing level tools, six months after it was recommended by the Francis inquiry report, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Morecambe Bay inquiry chair prepared to target regulators
The chair of the independent inquiry into failings at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has told HSJ he wants the freedom to investigate all bodies involved – including, potentially, regulators.
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CommentHow the NHS can chip away at 18 week waits
Three steps for the government to improve waiting times further
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NewsBerwick chief: review critics 'miss the point'
Critics who complained the Berwick review into patient safety was too “soft” are “fundamentally missing the point”, one of the review group’s leading members has told HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: Poulter the procurement the champion
Dr Dan wants NHS England to raise its game
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LeaderSustainable pensions are undermined by Treasury plans
The Treasury’s plans for NHS pensions would, in effect, cut the service’s budget. The government should explain why it is prepared to risk the place of NHS pensions “at the heart of the reward package for staff”
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NewsUPDATED: Deal reached on consultant contract talks
An agreement has been reached between NHS Employers and the British Medical Association on terms to renegotiate the consultant contract.
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NewsUPDATED: Wide variation in response rates for friends and family test
Significant variation between trusts in the response rates to the friends and family survey has sparked fresh concern about the test’s validity following publication of the first national results on Tuesday.
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NewsNHS Direct confirms 111 withdrawal
NHS Direct has confirmed it is seeking to pull out of all 11 of its contracts to provide NHS 111 as they have proved “financially unsustainable”.
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NewsAnalysed: The future of the NHS consultant contract
What does the NHS consultant contract say and how does it need to change for the future?
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CommentForget structures, reorganise the incentives
The US provides a model for rapid service change
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CommentMichael White: profound questions about booze and fags
It is too easy to cry “outrage” over packaging and prices
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NewsKeogh review exposes fears over NHS staffing levels
The NHS has little idea whether staffing levels at English hospitals are safe, Keogh review panel members have admitted.
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NewsExclusive: NHS England and CCG managers dodge fit and proper person test
Plans for a fit and proper person test for senior NHS managers will not apply to NHS England or clinical commissioning group staff, HSJ has been told.
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NewsMPs attack 'missed opportunity' of consultants contract
NHS hospital consultants are being poorly managed and their 2003 contract was a “missed opportunity” which delivered poor value for money, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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NewsHunt 'prepared to look at' future of foundation trust policy
Health secretary speaks exclusively to HSJ on private healthcare, the purchaser-provider split, and the “bold” reforms to healthcare models needed on the 65th anniversary of the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt says 'concept' of NHS 111 must be re-examined
The government is reviewing the “concept” of the controversial NHS 111 service, just months after the chaotic official launch of the new system, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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NewsMental health trusts look to diversify
Almost two thirds of NHS in-house mental health providers now also provide non-mental health services, a survey shared with HSJ reveals.
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Nicholson: Transferring NHS funds to social care would mean 'radical changes' to hospitals
The government must accept “radical changes” to hospital services if it diverts more NHS funding to shore up the social care budget, the head of the NHS England has said.
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Exclusive: Last minute reduction to expected education budgets
Education and training budgets across England had to be revised down weeks before a reformed funding system was put in place, HSJ can reveal.