All Policy articles – Page 155
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NewsInformation revolution now set for 'winter' release
The release of the Department of Health’s much-delayed strategy on an “information revolution” has been put back again, and is now not expected until the end of the year.
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NewsCommissioning reform costs already near quarter of a billion
Nearly a quarter of a billion pounds has already been spent on the government’s commissioning reforms, with tens of millions having been paid to general practice for its involvement, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe NHS Commissioning Board must support CCGs, not overshadow them
Amid the controversy around the government’s NHS reforms, relatively little attention has been given to the role of the NHS Commissioning Board.
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CommentLocal services need the backup of national support
We’ve all gone local these days. The health secretary is handing power to GPs. NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is giving a bigger say to patients.
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NewsCommissioning Board will dish out public health funds
The NHS Commissioning Board will have access to funding from the public health budget to commission “appropriate” programmes, the government has said.
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NewsBMA to launch campaign calling for withdrawal of Health Bill
The British Medical Association’s ruling council today voted to begin a public campaign for the withdrawal of the Health Bill.
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NewsGovernment green lights first provider competition plans
Patients will be given a choice of providers for mental health and community NHS services, the government has announced.
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NewsGovernment launches provider choice for community and mental health services
Commissioners have been told to offer a choice of “any qualified provider” for some community and mental health services from next year. It is part of government plans which amount to a slowing down of the extension of choice in the NHS.
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NewsGovernment launches new COPD strategy
Plans have been announced to transform the lives of millions of people with respiratory diseases.
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NewsNHS management is misleading GPs about commissioning, DH adviser says
A Department of Health adviser has said NHS national management, strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are misleading GPs about commissioning policy.
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News'Refrain' from most Microsoft purchases, requests government
The Cabinet Office has “requested” that NHS chief information officers obtain central clearance before buying Microsoft products until a national procurement contract is signed with the company.
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NewsHealth Bill in Commons after recess
Controversial plans to radically shake up the NHS will return to Parliament in the first week after the summer recess.
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NewsCommissioning Board will get funds from public health budget
The NHS Commissioning Board will have access to funding from the public health budget to commission “appropriate” programmes, the government has said.
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NewsPHE chief exec to be appointed by April 2012
The government says it expects to have a Public Health England chief executive in post by next April.
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NewsPublic health directors 'expected' to report directly to council chief execs, says DH
The government has confirmed that it “expects” directors of public health to be directly accountable to council chief executives when public health functions transfer to local authorities.
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LeaderLansley’s defence of management cuts is disingenuous and dangerous
“I try to avoid saying things that are capable of misinterpretation,” Andrew Lansley told HSJ last week.
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CommentMichael White: political meltdown?
Meltdown is an overworked media cliché which I try to avoid. But recent developments look a bit serious for the coalition.
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NewsSir David sets out single commissioning vision
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has jump-started development of the reformed commissioning system, publishing details of his emerging national board and telling primary care trust clusters to follow a “single operating model” for the next two years.
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NewsNHS ready to investigate Brown hack claims
The NHS in Scotland is prepared to launch an investigation into how the medical records of Gordon Brown’s family were leaked to the media, according to Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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NewsRise in complaints about health bodies
A parliamentary watchdog investigated double the number of complaints about government departments in the past year than in the previous 12 months, a report has said.