All Labour articles – Page 9
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NewsSenior managers face 'competency standards' but no 'striking off'
Directors of NHS organisations will have to meet minimum “competency standards” and be listed on a “central database” but will not face the prospect of being struck off, the government is due to announce today.
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HSJ LocalHealth secretary asked to halt £1bn community services tender
An MP has asked health secretary Matt Hancock to halt the “potentially disastrous” procurement of community services worth more than £1bn, after claiming the process does not align with the NHS long-term plan.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A brief history of NHS plans
With the release of the 10 Year Forward View imminent, Andy Cowper reflects on the success of the various NHS plans published in the last two decades and what to expect from the 10YFV
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CommentThe best of The Bedpan 2018
HSJ expanded its comment section in October with the launch of The Bedpan, a Sunday morning fix for health policy junkies in the form of interviews by our editor Alastair McLellan.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Will the 10-year NHS plan give us magical realism or socialist realism?
With the publication of the NHS 10-Year Forward View postponed, Andy Cowper says the 10YFV could operate in two very different genres of realism
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NewsNHS Improvement tightens grip on subsidiary companies
NHS Improvement will stop foundation trusts from creating subsidiary companies if it considers the plan too “high-risk”, according to new guidance.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Brownian Motion and Johnsonian home economics
With the re-announcement of money for the NHS, the health service faces a very real risk of raised expectations and a budget increase too low to deliver on them. By Andy Cowper
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CommentThe Bedpan: Financially illiterate and morally wrong
This week: Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree
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NewsHancock interview: ‘Big private health companies’ won’t run integrated care
The health secretary has told HSJ the government is “not going to hand [integrated care contracts] to the big private healthcare companies”, and would make this clear in Parliament when it presents new NHS legislation.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Health policy and politics – caffeinated or decaffeinated?
Andy Cowper discusses Brexit and what the two political parties think on health policy
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NewsHancock to 'look' at safe staffing legislation
Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has said he will “look at” the possibility of introducing safe nurse staffing legislation in England.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The magic sofa fallacy
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the recently announced Budget and where did the extra NHS money in the Budget come from
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CommentThe chances of changing the Health Act any time soon are remote
Nicholas Timmins says amending the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is not an easy task due to the current composition of Parliament
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NewsGovernment hits back in clinical waste row
The government has hit back at claims that there is not enough incineration capacity to burn waste from NHS hospitals - accusing the company at the centre of a stockpiling scandal of refusing to pay disposal costs.
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NewsLabour calls on minister to 'correct record' over waste incineration capacity
Labour has called on the government to explain why it “apparently contradicted” NHS and Environment Agency officials’ concerns over the capacity of incinerators to burn clinical waste.
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NewsTreasury confirms it will provide NHS pension funding
The Treasury says the increased costs of NHS pension contributions will be met with additional government funding, and dismissed claims to the contrary made by the Labour party.
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NewsThird of MPs do not understand new care model jargon
The majority of MPs want the NHS to simplify its language with a third admitting they do not understand new care model jargon.
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NewsHancock announces 10 year plan for patient safety
A new national strategy for patient safety in the NHS will be drawn up alongside NHS England’s long term plan for the health service, it has been announced.
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NewsLabour plans safe staffing amendments to healthcare safety bill
Labour proposes amendments to Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch bill Shadow health secretary attacks Matt Hancock’s promotion of GP at Hand Jonathan Ashworth raises prospect of legally enforced staffing ratios Labour have threatened to table amendments to the government’s Healthcare Safety Bill if ministers fail to take action ...