All Labour policy articles – Page 8
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NewsBurnham: FT model reinforces hospital domination
The foundation trust model must be updated to prevent a hospital centred approach which could “perpetuates silos”, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsExclusive: Labour could make NICE guidance mandatory
A Labour government could reduce variation in access to drugs and procedures by making it mandatory for commissioners to follow NICE guidelines, Andy Burnham has revealed
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NewsBurnham sets out role for private providers in his NHS vision
Private health providers could play a significant role in providing NHS services under a Labour government, the shadow health secretary has suggested
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NewsCCGs to support health and wellbeing boards under Burnham vision
CCGs could be morphed into the operational arms of HWBs, which will take on the role of ‘signing off’ health plans, Andy Burnham has suggested
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LeaderBurnham fills in the blanks on 'reform without reorganisation'
Labour shadow outlines plans in an exclusive interview
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CommentNo party should feel comfortable with their NHS position yet
None of the parties have had a decisive breakthrough
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NewsLabour 'still plans Health Act repeal'
Labour still intends to repeal the Health Act 2012 despite the shift in focus away from competition in the NHS Five Year Forward View, a shadow health minister has told HSJ.
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CommentWe can be cautiously hopeful about NHS's forward view
Focus must remain on patient centred care
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NewsBurnham: 'I hear the call' for more cash
the shadow health secretary has admitted that Labour has not yet solved the issue of health service funding, after NHS England challenged the next government to commit to year on year real terms annual funding growth of more than 1.5 per cent
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NewsLabour seeks to mollify reorganisation fears
Labour has sought to reassure clinical commissioning groups that its health reforms would not amount to a top-down ‘big bang’ shake up of the NHS.
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CommentThe NHS's fight to survive will be won with equality, efficiency and quality
Labour’s NHS vision
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LeaderWeak spending pledges mean more rationing and tighter control
The debate about NHS finances is changing
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CommentLib Dems join the pre-election bidding war but will voters listen?
Both major parties’ pledges are implausible
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CommentLocal issues need local solutions, not another top-down restructure
Clinical commissioning is key
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NewsBurnham: I will ‘not mandate’ structural change
EXCLUSIVE: A Labour government would ‘not mandate’ organisational change to drive through its plans for a fully integrated national health and care service, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Burnham outlines new role for Monitor
A Labour government could put Monitor in charge of overseeing the financial sustainability of whole health economies, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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NewsBurnham wants ‘every hospital to be an integrated care organisation’
Andy Burnham will announce that every hospital would need to become an integrated care organisation if Labour were in government during his address to the party conference tomorrow.
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NewsLabour 'needs to address funding to universities' to meet workforce pledge
Labour would have to address a shortage of funding to universities if it were to deliver on its pledge for 36,000 extra NHS staff if it formed a government, HSJ has been told
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CommentThere are tough political choices behind Miliband's £2.5bn
Funding for the NHS is a political decision
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NewsMiliband announces £2.5bn NHS 'time to care fund'
Labour party leader Ed Miliband today announced it would introduce a “£2.5bn NHS Time to Care Fund”, increasing health service funding at a greater rate than at present, if he formed a government next year.