All Policy articles – Page 134
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NewsJeremy Hunt replaces Andrew Lansley as health secretary
Jeremy Hunt has been appointed as health secretary, replacing Andrew Lansley, in a ministerial reshuffle. Three of the department’s other ministers have also been replaced.
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NewsCall to scrap regional pay 'to rescue economy'
Scrapping national pay bargaining in the public sector would save more than £6 billion a year that should be used to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, an influential think-tank has urged.
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NewsPlans for coping with fewer staff criticised
Government departments do not have long-term plans in place for new ways of working with fewer staff, a group of MPs has warned.
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NewsNew rules to tackle drugs lottery
More details have come to light of how hospitals that delay acting on National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance will be forced to explain hold-ups to patients.
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Blogs
Improving the health of the poorest, fastest: why clusters of lifestyle behaviours matter
When the coalition came to power I, like many others, was nervous about whether the government would see inequality reduction as one of its core aims.
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NewsChild abuse risk at walk-in centres
“Significant and worrying gaps” in the way some NHS walk-in centres operate risks child abuse going undetected, a study obtained by HSJ has warned.
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NewsExclusive: NHS or private expressions of interest sought to run 'failing' trust
The special administrator for the first hospital to be subjected to the failure regime has invited expressions of interest from the NHS and private sector to take over all or part of the organisation.
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NewsFTs expect CCGs to reverse activity growth next year
Foundation trusts expect clinical commissioning groups to oversee an unprecedented reduction in activity in 2013-14, Monitor has revealed.
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NewsPrivate providers in NHS 'likely' to escape toughest regulatory controls
Only a “very small” number of NHS services provided by private firms face the toughest regulatory controls, sector leaders have insisted following the publication of new Monitor guidance.
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NewsCircle outlines £8bn 'NHS growth opportunity'
Private health provider Circle named 32 trusts it viewed as constituting an “NHS growth opportunity” of more than £8bn in presentation to investors last year.
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NewsNHS organisations ready for revalidation
Most NHS organisations are ready for revalidation at the end of the year, according to a new report.
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NewsDH unveils licensing and competition plans
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor will have the power to direct commissioners to “withdraw or vary” tenders that breach competition rules, under regulations proposed by the Department of Health.
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CommentUniting voices in epilepsy treatment
Patients and clinicians can lead in standard and availability of neurosurgical options
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NewsNicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs
All NHS organisations have been ordered to publish details of which drugs they will routinely fund in a bid to make sure patients get medicines they are legally entitled to.
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Leader‘Novel and contentious’
The NHS rethinks its funding options in a developing picture which is far from uniform
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NewsBoard to buy support services
The NHS Commissioning Board will become a major customer of the commercial commissioning support service bodies that it will host, HSJ has learned.
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LeaderQuestions over Monitor’s role will be raised
There is continued uncertainty over the mechanics of regulation
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NewsNHS regulator drops 'Chinese walls' plan
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has scrapped its plan to build “Chinese walls” within its organisation to separate its existing role from its future responsibility to regulate the entire NHS healthcare sector.