All Paul Burstow articles – Page 3
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CommentWill Lansley be red-faced after rubber-stamped reconfiguration in London?
By the time you read this there may have been news on a most contentious reconfiguration in the capital – namely whether the health secretary has found a way to rubber-stamp the downgrading of Chase Farm without losing face (which he has, just about - ed.).
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NewsLib Dems renew Health Bill concerns ahead of Commons debate
NHS reform will again raise coalition government tensions this week when MPs consider the revised package.
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HSJ LocalTrust wins backing to vacate £3.6m PFI unit
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has won backing for its controversial plan to vacate the £3.6m-a-year PFI building it occupies in the grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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NewsMaternity units 'struggling' with rising birth rates
Rising birth rates are causing maternity units to struggle with the demand, according to a new report.
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NewsHealth minister calls for pause to 'reckless' reconfiguration of his local trust
Health minister Paul Burstow has said services could be put “at risk” by a hospital merger proposed near his constituency on the Surrey and London border.
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NewsBMA leader questions GP cash rewards
A government plan to reward GPs financially if they perform well could be considered “disgracefully unethical”, a doctors’ leader has said.
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NewsLansley: Competition will protect commissioners from 'abusive relationships'
Andrew Lansley has defended the competition agenda set out in the Health Bill during the committee stage its passage through Parliament.
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CommentMichael White: somwhere to escape the cuts
Wherever you turn at present it’s hard to escape the government’s cuts programme. I confirmed that (again) when I rang my sister at the nursery-infant-and-parenting unit she has worked in for many years. Their budget has been slashed, redundancies loom. Should she volunteer to go, taking decades of experience with ...
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'New' talk therapy cash to come from existing NHS budget
The £400m the government is putting into extending access to talking therapies will come from the wider NHS budget.
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Comment'Accountability in the NHS is a mess'
Ministers in Whitehall have excessive powers to interfere and meddle in local operational issues, with primary care trusts controlled by strategic health authorities and SHAs by Whitehall.
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NewsWaiting targets survive as £750m cancer strategy announced
Cancer waiting targets are to be preserved by the coalition government and £750m invested in improving survival rates over the next four years, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsCare minister taped criticising coalition partners
A member of the coalition government’s health team is one of a number of Liberal Democrat ministers caught in a sting over their opinion of high ranking Tories.
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NewsImproving Access to Psychological Therapies will get outcomes link
The government plans to extend the previous government’s talking therapies programme and “link” it to the NHS outcomes framework.
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NewsGovernment to set out social care plans
The government will today set out further details of its thinking on reform of the system of long-term care for the elderly in England.
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CommentMichael White: health panel discussions
As I type I can hear this week’s opening of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry being discussed on the radio.
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NewsBurstow's 'disappointment' over personal budgets
Care services minister Paul Burstow has spoken of his disappointment at the number of people whose care packages are paid for with a personal budget.
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NewsGovernment scraps adult social services performance assessment
Annual performance assessments that rate local councils on adult social care are to be scrapped once this year’s ratings are announced later this month.
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NewsCRB vetting cost £70m last year
Health and social care sectors spent almost £70 million vetting their staff last year, figures show.
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NewsPublic health plans must deal with mental health, say psychiatrists
Mental health must be “at the heart” of the upcoming public health white paper, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said.
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