All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 64
-
NewsEXCLUSIVE: Technology sidelined in QIPP plans
Only one in six local NHS innovation and efficiency schemes explicitly mentions adopting or extending the use of new technologies, HSJ analysis reveals.
-
NewsHunt promises Francis recommendations will not add to bureaucracy
Implementing recommendations from the report into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry will not add to the bureaucracy faced by NHS managers, the health secretary has said.
-
LeaderOfsted’s education in crisis management
Is Jeremy Hunt envious of education secretary Michael Gove?
-
LeaderThe strategy that dare not speak its name gets a new champion
Jeremy Hunt puts IT back on the agenda
-
NewsHunt to announce plans for Ofsted-style hospital ratings
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is backing the introduction of an Ofsted-style rating system for hospitals and care homes in an attempt to end a “crisis of care” in parts of the system.
-
NewsHunt puts 'technology revolution' in his top four priorities
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has identified a “technology revolution” as one of his top four priorities for the NHS for the first time.
-
NewsHunt defends return of £3bn to Treasury
Jeremy Hunt has defended the return of nearly £3bn Department of Health funding to the Treasury in the past two years.
-
NewsHunt to identify loneliest places
Maps showing the loneliest places in the UK are to be created, the health secretary will announce today.
-
CommentMichael White: An old localism dilemma
How to square localism with the postcode lottery is a familiar problem
-
CommentThe NHS mandate: liberation or ligature?
The freedom promised sounds good but how much is really on offer?
-
News
Health action party targets coalition seats
A new political party dedicated to opposing the government’s reforms of the NHS has said it will target the seats of high-profile Tories, including prime minister David Cameron, at the next general election.
-
NewsMandate aims to spark a 'revolution in transparency'
The NHS will be required to measure and publish outcomes data for all major services by 2015, to enable commissioners and patients to make more informed choices about care providers.
-
CommentMichael White: Sir David doesn't blink
The NHS chief executive sails on like Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick
-
NewsMandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
The government has rejected the use of fixed national targets in its mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board in favour of seeking continuous improvement against the NHS outcomes framework.
-
LeaderHunt loosens the reins of power
Hunt considers the mandate a test of the government’s commitment to loosening the reins
-
NewsMore than half of NHS Direct staff could be made redundant
More than half of NHS Direct staff face being made redundant or losing their NHS terms and conditions after a failure to reach agreement on their transfer to non NHS providers of the new 111 urgent phone service.
-
NewsCarnall calls for service reconfigurations to be accelerated
The head of NHS London has warned the government risks “stifling the ambition” of clinical commissioning groups if it does not find a way to speed up service reconfigurations.
-
CommentMichael White: MPs anxious to right a wrong
Ed Miliband made a rare leader’s speech on mental health
-
NewsHunt backs new standards for NHS managers
A new set of standards for NHS managers, non-executives and GP leaders will put “care, compassion and respect for patients” at the heart of leadership in the health service, the health secretary has said.
-
NewsLamb sets social care cap deadline
The care minister has promised a “significant breakthrough” in the government’s plan to introduce a cap on social care costs by 2015.