All Policy articles – Page 163
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CommentHealth insurance is a game of poker, against an expert
“NICE is accountable to the public,” Lord Crisp - the former NHS chief executive - advised Parliament last week. “What we don’t need is to import American style private sector rationing where individuals find themselves the victims of decisions made in private by individual insurance companies where nobody is accountable.”
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NewsAll NHS reconfigurations look set to progress despite moratorium
The government’s new set of tests for service reconfigurations has yet to lead to a scheme being turned down, an investigation by HSJ has found.
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NewsEaston criticises 'appalling and self-interested' NHS culture
National director for improvement and efficiency Jim Easton has claimed staff in the NHS hate learning from each other and put professional pride before the care of patients.
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LeaderWhat Dorrell says matters, and his message to the NHS is clear
House of Commons health committee chair Stephen Dorrell made an electrifying intervention into the NHS reform debate last Thursday.
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NewsStephen Dorrell: the ‘main game’ is delivering efficiency
The health committee chair argues the white paper should not be the NHS’s top priority. Instead, he tells Sally Gainsbury, the service should take its lead from its chief executive
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NewsMPs want power to scrutinise DH spending plans in detail
The Department of Health may have to start justifying its detailed spending plans to the Commons health committee, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPCT talent to be assigned to consortia
Primary care trust managers will be assigned to emerging GP consortia to add “influence” and limit the loss of talented staff, under national plans being developed by NHS East of England chief Sir Neil McKay.
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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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NewsNHS Surrey stops funding for IVF and tattoo removal
IVF treatment for women under 39, cosmetic procedures and other low priority interventions will no longer be funded in Surrey.
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NewsLet more people die at home, says end of life care report
Hundreds of thousands of people who would rather reach the end of their lives at home are instead dying in hospital, a study by think tank Demos says.
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NewsFormer RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'
A leading doctor has warned of the damage that could be done to the standard of cancer treatment in the UK by the government’s plans for the NHS.
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LeaderLansley accelerates his plans as Labour’s opposition falters
The government’s reforms are picking up pace.
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LeaderAn American Dream we should believe in
The NHS too often looks to the US for inspiration, encouraged by a shared language and the size of the American healthcare system.
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NewsHealey will ‘get stuck into’ broken promises on health
Shadow health secretary John Healey has spoken of his determination to expose the government’s “broken promises” on the NHS, in his first interview with the specialist health press since taking up the role.
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HSJ KnowledgeGP consortia: new roles and new rules
Will GP consortia face the same rules and compliances to which PCTs’ procurement functions are already subject, ask Melanie Print and Chris Brennan.
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News£750m spent by NHS on locum doctors
NHS hospitals spend more than £750m a year on hiring temporary doctors - and the cost has almost doubled in two years, figures suggest.
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NewsCall to slash Scotland's 22 health boards
It is “impossible to justify” Scotland’s 22 health boards, Labour has said.
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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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HSJ KnowledgeAny future for non-foundation trusts?
The alternatives to foundation status are still shrouded in mystery, say Jo Eastaugh and Jonathan Shapiro
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NewsNew hospital death rates to be published in April
An official NHS death rate for hospital trusts will be published within six months and must not be ignored, the Department of Health was due to announce today.