All Labour articles – Page 21
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NewsPrivate sector debate is 'utterly toxic', says Hunt
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the debate over the use of private providers in the NHS is “utterly toxic”, and that poor care is still unacceptable regardless of how it is provided.
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NewsPolitical consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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NewsBurnham: Mid Staffs is being used to drive privatisation
The government is using the Mid Staffordshire scandal to soften up the NHS for privatisation, the shadow health secretary has said
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NewsBetter care fund gives integration a 'bad name', says Burnham
The government’s better care fund is in danger of giving “integration a bad name” and of tipping the NHS over a financial cliff next year, Andy Burnham has said
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NewsDorrell steps down from health committee
Stephen Dorrell has confirmed he has stepped down as chair of the Commons health committee and is leaving the scrutiny body with immediate effect.
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NewsStevens on: Finance and health secretaries
Simon Stevens has indicated the NHS has early plans to meet about half of the looming £30bn gap; and has suggested greater transparency may be driving a trend toward “patient champion” health secretaries.
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NewsMid Staffs downgrade could face judicial review
The Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Stafford is seeking a judicial review of the decision to downgrade the town’s hospital.
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CommentAlan Johnson: Dementia strategy needs to transcend party politics
Let’s have a new vision to tackle this major health issue
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NewsBurnham: Health Act brings NHS under ‘full glare’ of competition rules
Andy Burnham believes repealing the Health Act 2012 would insulate the NHS from the effect of EU procurement and competition law, he has told HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: Attacks on Welsh NHS smack of opportunism
Pre-election politics in full effect
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NewsLabour: Nearly 4,000 NHS managers made redundant rehired
Almost 4,000 NHS staff who have been made redundant in the last four years have since been re-employed by the health service, according to figures released to the Labour Party.
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CommentOldham is a holistic man with a holistic remedy for whole person care
The obvious choice for Andy Burnham’s report
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NewsLabour review: councils must prove "readiness" to take on care of "frail" patients
A report commissioned by Labour on how to bring about integrated care has backed an evolutionary approach to giving health and wellbeing boards the lead role in planning local services.
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CommentHunt and Burnham are failing to tell their NHS story
Both are being restrained in the run-up to election
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NewsMiliband's CCG vision at odds with Burnham plan
Ed Miliband appears to have indicated that Labour would retain clinical commissioning groups as key decision making bodies in the NHS.
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NewsNHS 'demoralised and degraded'
The NHS is “demoralised, degraded and confused”, two years into its reorganisation, shadow health minister Andy Burnham has claimed.
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NewsSurge in over-90s needing ambulances
The number of very elderly people needing to go to hospital by ambulance has risen 81 per cent since 2009-10, according to new figures.
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NewsNHS contracts 'going to private firms'
Almost 70 per cent of NHS contracts awarded since the government’s controversial reforms became law have been won by private firms, a campaign group has claimed.
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CommentMichael White: Coalition and Labour all play the blame game
Just who is at fault for the emergency department staffing crisis?