All Government/DH policy articles – Page 171
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NewsManagers’ anger at O'Brien's name and shame threat
Managers have reacted with anger and confusion to a threat by health minister Mike O’Brien to “name and shame” those who slash budgets and services in response to the public sector funding squeeze.
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NewsSir Ian Kennedy champions ‘fearless’ NHS regulator
Former Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has accused MPs of “shooting the messenger” in a Commons health committee report on patient safety.
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CommentDavid Nicholson: ride the wave of NHS innovation
Linking quality and productivity via innovation to produce efficiency gains is the most important long term challenge facing the NHS, and it needs action at all levels
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NewsAndy Burnham responds to infection control criticisms
Health secretary Andy Burnham has admitted the government could work harder in fighting hospital infections after a report accused the Department of Health of failing to monitor the situation adequately.
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NewsRCGP refutes practice boundary claims
The Royal College of GPs has reacted to claims by health minister Mike O’Brien that it wants to abolish practice boundaries.
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NewsCourt hears private patient cap arguments
The Department of Health has raised concerns that Monitor’s definition of the private patient income cap “permits foundations and their advisers to adopt artificial structures to circumvent the cap”.
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NewsNHS managers to back Labour as job fears focus their minds
An HSJ survey has revealed that NHS managers look more likely than the population at large to back Labour in next year’s general election, perhaps driven by anxiety about job security under the Conservatives. Rebecca Evans studies the findings
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CommentPaul Corrigan on clinical leadership
Over the last couple of years we have all become used to the importance of clinical leadership for the development of the NHS. In fact in the management of a health service it’s really quite difficult to conceive of an argument against it.
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NewsAndy Burnham stands ground after taking fire on competition rules
Health secretary Andy Burnham has insisted to HSJ that his rewriting of the competition rules will accelerate, not slow, the pace of NHS reform.
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LeaderAndy Burnham’s flawed NHS regime will stifle commissioning ambitions
The row over NHS competition policy played out over the pages of this week’s HSJ goes to the heart of Labour’s leadership of the NHS.
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CommentMedia Watch: bingo wing treatment gets DH backing
The Nintendo Wii Fit Plus has become the first computer game to be endorsed by the Department of Health, the papers trumpeted this week.
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NewsHinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
East of England strategic health authority has advertised for a franchisee to take over deficit-hit Hinchingbrooke hospital.
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NewsAndy Burnham extends preferred provider vow
Non-NHS providers of services will only be contracted as a last resort, the health secretary has assured the general secretary of the TUC.
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CommentAndy McKeon on NHS efficiency and pre-election sparring
The pre-election sparring has begun and the NHS will not escape some cuts. How tough things get will be a true test of how well money has been spent recently
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CommentSimon Stevens on the best healthcare system in the world
Torture the statistics until they confess. That seems to be the approach of many academics, journalists and policy wonks to the ideologically loaded question: which country’s healthcare system is best?
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NewsTory plan could give GPs interest bonanza
GP practices could earn thousands of pounds a year in interest payments under Conservative plans to turn practice based commissioning budgets into “hard cash”.
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NewsDH eyes patient cap for new tariff rules
NHS hospitals face a limit on the number of patients they will be paid to treat next year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS efficiency tsar: recession is a chance for change
The financial squeeze could finally force the NHS to restructure itself around community services, according to national director for improvement and efficiency Jim Easton.
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NewsTories need clear vision and a stronger message on health
The Conservatives have pronounced themselves the party of reform but are too wedded to the status quo. Andrew Haldenby argues they need to spend more energy advocating change
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CommentJon Restell on NHS choice and personalisation
Every film has its fans. Although no one I know has had the audacity to big it up, even Marley and Me must have a tiny cult following somewhere. (Tip: if necessary, kill to avoid seeing Marley and Me.)