All Labour articles – Page 21
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NewsBurnham sets out plans for repeal of Health Act
Labour would force clinical commissioning groups to include a wider range of clinicians and reverse the increased private patient income cap, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: Labour homes in on 'whole person care'
Reintegrating health and housing has been proposed
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NewsBurnham: NHS 'hearts and minds' behind my integration plan
NHS staff will back further reorganisation of the NHS by a Labour government because their “hearts and minds” are behind the party’s plans for integration of the health and social care systems, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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NewsHSJ at the Labour conference – follow it live
Follow HSJ’s reporters, who are tweeting live from the Labour conference in Brighton
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NewsLamb calls for cross-party talks on NHS
Health minister Norman Lamb has called for cross-party talks to discuss the long-term future of the NHS.
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NewsPHE says flu and cold weather to blame for spike in excess deaths
The national public health oversight body has said excess deaths during winter 2012-13 “would seem to be” due to “a combination of circulating influenza and cold weather”.
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CommentMichael White: Burnham thinks big
The shadow health secretary wants Labour to have clear, gimmick free policies
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NewsRelegate CCGs to advisory role, says Burnham
The shadow health secretary has said clinical commissioning groups should be relegated to an advisory role because councils were more in tune with their local populations than GPs.
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NewsLabour highlights hospital capacity fall
Hospitals are “dangerously close to full”, Labour has warned, after it emerged that the number of hospital beds available to patients in England has shrunk by almost 6 per cent since the coalition government took office.
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NewsBurnham issues A&E warning after tent erected outside hospital
The NHS has missed its national accident and emergency target every week for six months, Labour has warned.
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Labour warns over 'unfair' public health budget split
The handover of responsibility for public health from primary care trusts to local authorities could be a “car crash”, the Labour party has warned.
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NewsGovernment's competition rowback 'doesn't address fundamentals'
The government’s changes to controversial secondary legislation covering the contracting of NHS services have sparked disagreement over the effect of the new rules.
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CommentWe should all join Burnham's debate on integrated care
Key decisions on fusing health and social care cannot wait
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NewsLabour MP calls for moratorium on A&E closures
A Labour MP has called on ministers to impose a moratorium on closures of hospital emergency departments until the NHS Commissioning Board’s national review on the subject has been carried out.
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NewsBurnham plans £60bn NHS cash handover to councils
The vast majority of NHS funding would be handed to councils under radical proposals being developed by the shadow health secretary.
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LeaderBurnham’s radicalism resets care debate
Burnham proposes a system with more local democratic control
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NewsHunt: Unsafe staffing 'totally unacceptable'
It is “totally unacceptable” for hospitals to have unsafe staffing levels, health secretary Jeremy Hunt insisted yesterday.
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NewsLabour demands 'honesty' on NHS
Labour has called on the government to provide “a bit of accountability and a bit of honesty” as it accused the coalition of presiding over a “cut” in NHS spending during its term in office.
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NewsAnti-NHS reforms party launched
A group of healthcare professionals is today launching a new political party dedicated to opposing the government’s reforms of the NHS.