All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 59
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NewsHunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons blocking data release will be named from next week
Consultants who block their outcome data from being published in a new transparency initiative will be “named and shamed” from next week, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC 'cover up' meeting names revealed
Former deputy chief executive of the Care Quality Commission Jill Finney has been revealed as the official who, according to an independent audit review, ordered a critical internal report to be deleted.
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NewsExclusive: Surgeons may not be able to block performance data publication, NHS England believes
NHS England has received legal advice which says surgeons cannot block publication of their performance data, HSJ has been told.
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NewsOpt-out doctors 'will be named'
Doctors who decide not to disclose details of their performance will be “named and shamed” by the government, it has emerged.
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NewsHunt heart unit statement expected imminently
Campaigners fighting to save a children’s heart unit are hoping health secretary Jeremy Hunt will reverse the decision today.
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NewsNHS creating 'older people's plan'
NHS bosses are creating a “vulnerable older people’s plan” to help alleviate the stress on accident and emergency wards, the health secretary has announced.
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NewsHunt admits Tories 'guilty' of blanket opposition to reconfiguration in past
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt admitted to delegates at the NHS Confederation that his own party and politicians generally had been “guilty” of knee-jerk opposition to unpopular reconfigurations.
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LeaderLeader: Nicholson urges NHS to begin creative phase
David Nicholson is ‘not reaching for the pipe and slippers’
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NewsNicholson says 'becoming the story' after Francis part of retirement decision
Sir David Nicholson has admitted that his “becoming the story” after the Francis report publication contributed to his decision to announce his retirement.
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NewsFrancis report may have contributed to A&E problems, says Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson has said the NHS’s interpretation of February’s Francis report, combined with unseasonably bad weather, may have caused the collapse in accident and emergency performance earlier this year.
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CommentMichael White: we're entitled to be sceptical of Labour's plans
A different version of austerity and the NHS after 2015
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CommentPrepare for the workforce boom
The DH has to face up to 20,000 future unemployed hospital doctors
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CommentMichael White: a bad week for GPs and MPs
The papers stir up the battle between doctors and politicians
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NewsHunt announces GP out-of-hours responsibility plans
GPs should be ultimately responsible for out-of-hours care - even if they don’t personally provide it, the health secretary has said.
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CommentThe Care Bill ignores Francis' recommendations
Examining the government’s Care and Support Bill
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NewsHunt backs chief inspector of GPs plan
Jeremy Hunt has backed plans for a chief inspector of general practice, to be based in the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsCCGs defy Hunt by planning to increase competition for out-of-hours GP care
More than one in five clinical commissioning groups are planning to “introduce” competition for out-of-hours primary care in the next year, an exclusive HSJ survey reveals.
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NewsClinical commissioners say GPs under pressure as A&E row escalates
NHS Clinical Commissioners, which represents a large number of clinical commissioning groups, has said GP “workloads are at breaking points and GPs are ready to buckle under the strain”, which will affect willingness to take part in commissioning.
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NewsHunt plans £260m to help hospitals go digital
Hospitals are due to be funded to improve their “outdated” paper patient notes and prescriptions, under plans expected to be announced by the health secretary.