All Government/DH policy articles – Page 157
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LeaderMcKinsey report: unthinkable solutions set scene for NHS cuts
What lies behind the governments’s decision to publish the McKinsey report into NHS cost savings this week?
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CommentJohn McGowan on service-user involvement
It’s time we shattered a great NHS myth and said that service-user involvement is often of little or no use
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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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CommentMichael White on coalition compromises
When is the glass half full and when is it half empty? It’s all a matter of temperament, in my experience. The 400-point Lib-Con coalition agreement seems to have been a relatively painless negotiation as far as the 30 health (plus four on public health) points are concerned. Should we ...
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NewsNHS service change plans will face stricter controls
Plans for major NHS service change will in future have to meet stricter standards, including the approval of GP commissioners, under rules to be announced next month.
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NewsGovernment outlines 30 pledges on future of NHS
The government’s detailed coalition agreement Our Programme for Government, together with a further document sent to strategic health authorities this week, set out 30 pledges on the NHS and a further four on public health.
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NewsThousands of jobs at risk as strategic health authorities face axe
Strategic health authorities will be abolished by 2012, throwing the job security of over 3,000 staff in doubt.
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NewsCancer patients request early access to Cancer Drug Fund
Liver cancer patients are lobbying the government to grant them access to the Cancer Drug Fund before its planned introduction in 2011.
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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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NewsGovernment plans health legislation, leak suggests
A health bill is expected to be introduced to Parliament in the next 18 months, according to a draft of tomorrow’s Queen’s speech.
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CommentJenny Rogers on spin and language
Just before the election I was on a London bus, the spiritual home of the Man on the Clapham Omnibus. I was eavesdropping on a conversation between strangers discussing how they would vote, agreeing they may not vote at all and also declaring that politicians are “all the same - ...
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CommentNeil Churchill: NHS savings on long term conditions
Encouraging patients to be more self sufficient could go quite a way towards realising the required savings of £2.7bn a year by 2014 from the NHS’s long term conditions budget
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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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HSJ KnowledgeHow to improve end of life care
The 2008 end of life care strategy allocated £286m to primary care trusts. Lynne Greenwood looks at some of the innovations and improvements being made with the cash
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NewsOsborne commissions audit of Whitehall spending
Chancellor George Osborne is to commission an independent audit of the Government’s books after finding examples of “crazy” spending decisions in Labour’s last year in power, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
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NewsWill Hutton to lead public sector pay inquiry
Prime minister David Cameron has signalled his intention to extend his “big tent” government beyond the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition, talking to Labour MP Frank Field about poverty and appointing left-leaning economist Will Hutton to head an inquiry into public sector pay.
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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.