All Government/DH policy articles – Page 3
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why some NHS staff are facing a pay cut
Earlier this month, the government announced a “carrot and stick” approach to senior manager pay, so this week we go into the detail about what this will mean in practice and how it could affect recruitment to a workforce already facing a lot of churn.
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NewsSenior pay rules ‘demotivating’ leaders, say government advisers
Very small uplifts between senior pay bands are “demotivating” NHS staff and discouraging them from accepting promotion, government advisers have warned.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Marching into No.10
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The state of maternity services
This week, the team look at two long-running and contentious issues in the NHS.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why AI isn’t taking off in the NHS
In many areas the NHS is still in the foothills when it comes to using artificial intelligence, with most of the innovation found in diagnostics and speech dictation.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Market failure?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by bureau chief Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: ICBs get their marching orders
NHS England has revealed its new “model ICB blueprint”, which will see more than a dozen functions transferring out of integrated care boards and includes requirements to cut the number of board members.
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NewsNHSE reorganisation plans delayed
The first draft of a “high-level plan” for merging NHS England into the Department of Health and Social Care has been delayed, officials have acknowledged.
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NewsEx-health secretary attacks ‘drastic’ ICB shake-up
Government and NHS England should “step back” from their NHS “reorganisation” which “came out of nowhere” and risks “taking people’s focus internally”, according to former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The making of a Health Bill – part 1
The first in an occasional series of HSJ Health Check podcasts tracking the development of the government’s planned Health Bill, which is due to bring about the biggest change in the central running of the NHS for more than a decade.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The FDP is an ‘empty box’ in many areas
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: What next for frontline digitisation?
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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CommentThe NHS may get less money after the NHSE is abolished
Ed Jones examines the potential changes that the health service can expect after the abolition of NHS England
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CommentAvoiding the three icebergs that could sink the NHS
The NHS should start to use programme budgeting and marginal analysis to help decision-makers gauge the effect of reallocating resources across healthcare services, thus optimising resource allocation to improve outcomes
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Lessons from the CQC’s failed transformation project
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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NewsExclusive: Government admits cutting mental health spend share
The proportion of the NHS budget spent on mental health services is being cut for the first time in several years, the government will admit to Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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NewsICBs will have to merge, says ex-NHSE chief
Some integrated care boards will need to merge in order to cut their running costs in half, according to Sir David Nicholson — leaving trust groups such as the one he now chairs well placed to organise local services.
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CommentNHS leaders must speak out against the government’s welfare reforms
The recently announced proposals to modify disability benefits will have disastrous effects on disabled people’s income, health and wellbeing, and might harm the NHS on multiple levels, writes Peter Reading
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Expert BriefingThe Download: The 10-Year Plan for data and tech revealed
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week written by correspondent Joe Talora. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Do ICBs have a future?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.