All Labour policy articles – Page 19
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NewsGordon Brown pledges to 'beat cancer in this generation'
Prime minister Gordon Brown has pledged to “beat cancer in this generation”.
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NewsAlan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has attacked Andy Burnham’s decision to move away from competition and make the NHS the “preferred provider” of services.
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NewsAndy Burnham promises to protect primary care budgets
Health secretary Andy Burnham has promised to do “everything he can” to protect primary care budgets from public sector spending cuts.
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NewsMike O'Brien tells SHAs to 'justify their existence'
Health minister Mike O’Brien has called on strategic health authorities to “justify their existence”, saying more of their budgets should be devolved to commissioners.
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NewsGordon Brown to unveil seven day cancer test pledge
Patients will undergo diagnostic tests for cancer within seven days of concerns being raised, prime minister Gordon Brown is to pledge.
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NewsPublic spending cuts 'not black and white' - Alistair Darling
Frontline services can be protected despite the need to make “difficult choices” on public spending cuts, the Chancellor has said.
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NewsAndy Burnham’s preferred bidder pledge questioned
Questions have been raised over the implications for competition and world class commissioning of health secretary Andy Burnham’s statement that the NHS is the “preferred provider” of services.
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NewsAndy Burnham told to 'take care' over paying for quality
The government’s announcement that it would incorporate greater measures of quality into payment by results has been welcomed.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons.
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CommentMichael White on NHS spending and the McKinsey report
As if last week wasn’t more than usually nightmare-ish enough for the NHS’s managerial officer class, with a convicted murderer’s birthmarks and the leaked McKinsey report providing only two of many horrid headlines, this week started with a fresh jolt.
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NewsMcKinsey report: politicians accused of not facing reality
The NHS Confederation has warned that the febrile political environment has “left behind all rational debate” over health service funding over the next five years.
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NewsNHS spending: McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn
The McKinsey report leaked by HSJ last week lays bare the tough issues managers have to grasp as the funding squeeze looms, explains Sally Gainsbury
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NewsUK faces hard choices on public spending, Alistair Darling warns
Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to announce that the UK faces “hard choices on public spending” after it emerges from recession.
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LeaderMcKinsey have plotted a course, NHS managers must lead through it
The report by consultancy McKinsey revealed in this week’s HSJ spells out the pain of cuts and change the NHS needs to endure to find £20bn of savings.
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CommentMedia Watch: sick leave row
The news that some of the health service’s most poorly paid staff get an “overly generous” deal while on sick leave during the recession was the focus of the media spotlight in some quarters this week.
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LeaderPatient records: jokes about doctors’ bad handwriting are no longer funny
The Audit Commission has found that 8 per cent of the bills sent by trusts to commissioners last year were for the wrong treatment.
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NewsScotland 'falling behind' England on healthcare
The Scottish Labour Party has attacked the Scottish National Party for “allowing” standards of healthcare to fall behind those in England.
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CommentMichael White on US healthcare and NHS politics
Oh dear. Turn your back on the politicians for a few days’ holiday and when you get back they’re engaged in all-too-familiar pre-election skirmishing about the NHS being safe in our hands - but not in the other lot’s.
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Blogs
Burnham's views on centralism
National newspaper articles citing health secretary Andy Burnham and Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes raise intriguing questions about the government’sattitude to foundation trusts.
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NewsA third say no party could run NHS
Almost one in three people think none of the major political parties is capable of running the NHS, a survey has revealed.