All Government/DH policy articles – Page 171
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CommentKen Jarrold on preparing to vote in the general election
The general election is now within touching distance. The campaign is well underway. It is time to prepare and three points may help to do this.
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NewsNew health minister unveiled
The Department of Health has confirmed Baroness Thornton as its latest health minister.
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CommentAlan Maynard: could the Tories give PCTs bite?
The ‘toothless bulldogs’ of the NHS might hope for more control over purchasing under the Conservatives
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CommentAndrew Jones on the politics of wellbeing
Election season is upon us and the aspiring communicator can only watch in awe as the main protagonists wheel out their proven strategists and presenters.
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NewsNPSA halts search for chief executive
The National Patient Safety Agency has put off its search for a new chief executive amid a Department of Health clampdown on senior appointments at arm’s length bodies.
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NewsAndy Burnham raises doubts about FT accountability
Health secretary Andy Burnham has questioned the ability of foundation trust governors to hold boards to account in an exclusive interview with HSJ.
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CommentJanice Stevens on same sex hospital accommodation
Same sex facilities call for changed attitudes more than new buildings
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NewsPCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation
Primary care trusts face having to renegotiate contracts for out of hours provision.
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PCTs dispute management cost figures
Primary care trusts have disputed government data on their administrative and management spending.
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CommentStephen Eames on NHS merger turkeys
Most evidence of the impact of mergers is mixed and suggests benefits do not always materialise.
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HSJ KnowledgeTotal Place: why working together boosts independence
Offender management in Luton and Central Bedfordshire is cumbersome and costly. In the second article in our series on Total Place, Helen Mooney looks at how the NHS, local government and agencies are using the scheme to tackle this
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NewsDH dismisses own advisory panel's claims on procurement and competition as 'anecdote'
The Department of Health has dismissed as “anecdote” a report from its own cooperation and competition panel that warned a “significant number” of NHS commissioners were at risk of legal challenge because they were not following procurement rules.
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NewsSHAs plan staff cuts of up to 10pc
Strategic health authorities are actively exploring cutting local NHS workforces by up to 10 per cent in order to make the £15bn-£20bn savings required by 2014.
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CommentThomas Hughes-Hallett on a better place to die
Despite significant improvements in recent years, care of the dying is too often a lower priority than saving lives.
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NewsMany commissioners breach NHS competition rules
The NHS cooperation and competition panel has warned that a “significant number” of commissioners have left their procurement process open to challenge.
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NewsBill Moyes calls for DH unit to tackle ‘lethargic’ non-FTs
The outgoing executive chair of Monitor spent his last days in post urging the Department of Health to establish a new body to tackle “lethargic” trusts that have still not applied for foundation status.
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NewsBill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes leaves the foundation trust regulator this week with no regrets about his stormy journey, as he tells Sally Gainsbury in his final interview
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NewsSHAs return to topslicing budgets
Strategic health authorities are introducing stringent financial rules and mandatory topslicing in a bid to keep the NHS in balance next financial year.
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NewsManagers face professional regulation and tighter vetting
Managers would be regulated for the first time under a proposal being developed by the Department of Health in the wake of safety fears sparked by hospital scandals.
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Foundation seeks pay rise below Agenda for Change rate
The only foundation trust outside the national pay framework has made its first real attempt to break away from national pay rates.