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CommentCowper’s Cut: The two NHS cultures
The scientist and novelist C P Snow’s famous 1959 lecture and book describes The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities as having become polarised.
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Leader
The NHS begins 2020 with good reason to hope for a better decade
The NHS stands at the threshold of a new decade facing both potentially its most difficult winter in decades and the most hopeful medium-term future since the 2008 financial crash.
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Leader
Nobody really knows how this Labour party would run the NHS
Although discussion of the NHS has dominated much of the election debate, there has been little scrutiny of how Labour would run the NHS. The party’s focus has been on attacking the Tory record, making spending pledges and raising the existential fear that the service is “for sale” to Donald ...
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News
Labour plans ‘democratically accountable’ integrated care systems
Integrated care systems would become “democratically accountable” under a Labour government, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has told HSJ .
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5pc pay rise for NHS staff if Labour wins power
Labour has promised a 5 per cent pay rise to NHS staff next year in its 2019 election manifesto.
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Exclusive: Labour will be ‘pragmatic’ on private outsourcing
Labour’s prospective health secretary says he will be a “pragmatist” when it comes to routine NHS operations being outsourced to private hospitals.
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Labour voices ‘respect’ for NHS chief Simon Stevens
Labour’s leadership says it has a “very good relationship” with NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens, and has highlighted his record working for the party during Tony Blair’s government.
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Comment
Pressing ahead: what to expect from the Conservative manifesto on the NHS
Richard Sloggett gives a lowdown on what the Conservative manifesto might have in store for the NHS
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Comment
The Bedpan: ‘I should have challenged DH advice on Mid Staffs’
This week: Andy Burnham , mayor of Greater Manchester
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: At last, the ‘truth’ about NHS privatisation
HSJ ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black. This week by HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.
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Comment
The Bedpan: ‘Start acting like f**king grown ups’
This week: Jess Phillips , Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley
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Comment
New money comes with a price for NHS leaders
Richard Sloggett, until recently an adviser to Matt Hancock, on what the political party conference season and recent government announcements mean for the NHS.
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Comment
The dangers of Labour's attempt to cut drug costs
The Labour party’s proposals aimed at drug costs are radical but risky, writes Tony Hockley
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Corbyn vows to create state-run drug company and seize patent rights
Jeremy Corbyn says a Labour government would create a state-run pharmaceutical company to make generic versions of drugs the NHS cannot afford.
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Labour: ‘No chance’ of government passing NHSE’s legislation
The government “has got no chance of getting” NHS legislation – as proposed by NHS England – through Parliament, the shadow health secretary has said.
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Government pledges £1,000 ‘personal development budgets’ for NHS
The chancellor has promised an increase in planned spending on NHS staff development, which he says will pay for £1,000 “personal development budgets” for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.
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