All Government/DH policy articles – Page 179
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CommentThe social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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CommentAndy McKeon: saving £15bn-£20bn will be no summer holiday
This summer senior NHS managers have been set a problem they will still be studying for months ahead - how to save £15bn-£20bn over three years from 2011.
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NewsCall for ambitious mental health targets
Public services such as the NHS, schools and transport should be set targets to reduce the financial burden of mental illness, according to mental health leaders.
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NewsReality chips away at NHS's gold-plated pension scheme
The ‘gold plated’ NHS pension scheme swallows 10 per cent of the service’s budget, but even in these tight times reforming it is a challenge no party is keen to accep.
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CommunityHSJ and a bit of satire and Darzi's sorted
Interesting to dissect the reading habits of the pre-reshuffle health ministers - a parliamentary answer last week revealed that while most of Lord Darzi’s colleagues had several “periodicals” delivered to their private office in May, he survives on just HSJ and Private Eye.
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NewsConcerns over CQC costs spark 'bonfire of the quangos' scrutiny
Politicians have this week pledged another “bonfire of the quangos”.
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NewsFinance directors plan to renegotiate supplier contracts
NHS finance directors are increasingly pessimistic about the financial outlook for their organisations and plan to address their concerns by renegotiating contracts with suppliers.
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NewsCost of regulation merger reaches into millions
Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
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CommentMichael White: on patient safety and savvy spending
I had an odd experience at the weekend. Reading the Commons health select committee’s depressing report on patient safety, I kept thinking of the more visible drama now being played out over public expenditure and pay.
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CommentDoes my daughter have swine flu?
It’s been a tough month for my 12-year-old; she dislocated an elbow on an activity trip, was involved in a car accident, and then, last Friday, went down with suspected swine flu.
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CommentClinicians and managers - shedding some light on the dark side
What is it really like for clinicians who become managers in the NHS? Mark Johnston and Yasmin Ahmed-Little take a closer look
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SupplementsTransforming Community Services
See the attached file for our in-depth look at the programme that will lead delivery of the next stage review vision for primary and community care.
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NewsTories to scrutinise Monitor and CQC in plans to slash quangos
Every quango, including the Care Quality Commission, Monitor and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will be reviewed by the Conservative Party to assess whether it should be closed or scaled back.
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NewsUnions warn that public sector pay cuts could spark strikes
Any attempts to cut the pay of NHS staff and other public sector workers may lead to strikes, unions have warned.
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NewsGovernment will not back private care home protection
Efforts to improve human rights protection for children and the elderly in privately run care homes have been blocked by the government.
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NewsCMO reassures over supplies of Tamiflu
The government’s chief medical officer has said that Britain has enough Tamiflu after it was revealed that the number of new swine flu cases could hit 100,000 per day.
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CommentJohn McGowan: the truth about markets
It is an article of faith among former 1980s undergraduates like me, particularly in the pub, that Labour has gone far further than the Tories ever did in imposing business values on the long suffering NHS.
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NewsCalls for fresh look at women's contraception access
Women should be allowed to access contraception services without seeing a clinician if unplanned pregnancies do not fall, according to an expert group.
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NewsSocial care green paper delayed again
The long awaited social care green paper has been delayed again.
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NewsBuilding Britain's Future hints at threat to SHAs
The government has set out plans to turn NHS targets into enforceable patient entitlements in a move that is likely to see the role of strategic health authorities reduced.