All Mike O’Brien articles – Page 3
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NewsPremium rate call charges to be outlawed in NHS
The Department of Health is to issue trusts and GPs with guidance on reviewing their current contractual arrangements for telephony services.
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CommunityFormer minister suffers art attack
The Department of Health has been economising on its art collection - although whether by accident or as part of a planned recession busting measure remains unclear.
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NewsNHS to ban premium rate numbers
Premium rate telephone numbers will be banned for all lines used by patients and the public to contact the NHS, Health Minister Mike O’Brien has announced.
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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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Comment'People, the NHS needs managers'
The media seized on HSJ’s scoop on the Department of Health-commissioned McKinsey report.
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LeaderMcKinsey report was no fiendish plot, just an attempt to grasp the reality
Last week’s revelation by HSJ of the pain the NHS might have to endure to achieve savings in the order of £20bn by 2014 dominated the national media.
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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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NewsDH is told 137,000 NHS posts must go in next five years
The Department of Health has been told the NHS in England will need to slash its workforce by 137,000 if it is to achieve its planned £20bn savings by 2014, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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NewsNHS to become a landlord for private treatment centres
The buildings and facilities of up to 16 independent sector treatment centres will need to be bought by the NHS over the next two years at a capital cost estimated at £200m, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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CommunityLookey Likey: O'Brien and Schofield
Health minister Mike O’Brien and TV presenter Phillip Schofield are both blessed with a mop of grey hair and the gift of the gab.
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NewsMinister sets out limits of competition and choice
Health minister Mike O’Brien has emphasised to managers the limits to which the NHS should embrace competition and choice.
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NewsThree-digit urgent care number proposals published
The government has published plans for a national three-digit number for accessing non-emergency care.
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CommentMichael White: What happened to the government's Health Bill?
Have we lost track of the government’s Health Bill, which has turned out to be not the promised “flagship” piece of legislation but a “rather small” boat, as Andrew Lansley joked during its Commons second reading?
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NewsNHS prescription review delayed until autumn
The health minister has said a delayed review into the costs of prescriptions will be published in the autumn.
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NewsAndy Burnham: don't sideline NHS quality
Raising the quality of services is the best way to improve productivity as NHS spending is cut, and this should not be a time of “gloom”, the new health secretary has told HSJ.
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NewsTwo new ministers named at Department of Health
Mike O’Brien and Gillian Merron have been named as new ministers at the Department of Health.
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Hitting the deck
news focus: David Loughton is going; his successor will be appointed under the franchise scheme. Paul Smith reports on a legacy of bitterness among staff at Coventry's Walsgrave Hospital - and their hopes for the future
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