All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 54
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Board level culture undermines paperless ambition
Senior managers’ lack of knowledge about the clinical and cost benefits of improved IT systems is hindering progress towards the health secretary’s ambition for a paperless NHS, an exclusive HSJ survey suggests.
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NewsFTN chief criticises tariff and planning guidance
The chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has said “growing financial pressures” on the NHS are preventing patients from receiving quality care.
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NewsCQC chief executive backs wider duty of candour
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has thrown his weight behind a wider definition of the government’s planned statutory duty of candour.
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HSJ Local
Commissioners rule out Morecambe Bay maternity downgrade
STRUCTURE: Commissioners leading a major review of hospital services in Morecambe Bay have ruled out downgrading the maternity unit that was the focal point of the area’s recent care scandal.
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CommentHunt vs Burnham: Care Bill grudge match
Commons debate is one of the rowdiest for a long time
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CommentThe duty of candour is a giant leap in patients' rights
Jeremy Hunt has an important decision to make
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NewsMalcolm Grant: I don't use private healthcare
The NHS England chair has refuted suggestions that he uses private healthcare, saying he is registered with an NHS GP and does not have health insurance.
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NewsMonitor to increase supervision of FT A&E performance
Monitor is increasing its scrutiny of foundation hospitals’ accident and emergency performance this winter, after being requested to do so by the health secretary.
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CommentMichael White: A year of 'everything for the best'
You needn’t be Dr Pangloss to hope for a better year in 2014
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CommentWhat schools teach trusts about 'special measures'
The new CQC regime is a chance for hospitals to recover
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CommentMichael White: The coalition’s real U-turn
David Cameron is instinctively a pragmatic liberal Tory
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NewsMap to expose dementia care gaps
Significant gaps in care for dementia sufferers will be exposed by an interactive online map being published by the government as part of a bid to improve the way they are treated by the NHS.
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NewsHospital sector on the way to centralising AAA surgery
England’s hospital sector will have largely completed a reconfiguration of surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms by April, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsA&Es to get extra beds this winter
The government’s additional £250m funding for accident and emergency this winter will be spent on more than 2,000 extra beds and extra staff, Jeremy Hunt has said.
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CommentMichael White: Reaction to response is cause for dismay
Francis report still has the power to shock
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NewsUPDATED: Hunt demands explanations from A&E underperformers
The health secretary has this afternoon called the leaders of five hospital trusts that have failed to hit accident and emergency waiting times targets, HSJ has learned.
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LeaderBarring scheme for directors will do more harm than good
The government’s full response to Francis offered little new
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NewsLawyer warns of creating 'a new industry'
“A new industry of internal investigation” could be created by plans to strip trusts of their government indemnity cover if they break duty of candour rules, a lawyer has warned.