All Policy articles – Page 36
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The health bill has landed
The Health and Care Bill has finally been published. We discuss the most eye-catching measures and the controversies surrounding what was supposed to be straightforward legislation.
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NewsHealth bill introduces new criminal offence for sharing NHS data
The new Health and Care Bill has introduced a range of powers for information sharing, as well as a new criminal offence punishable with a prison sentence.
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NewsBill confirms end of compulsory NHS competition
A major bill laid before Parliament today has confirmed the end of compulsory competition in the NHS.
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NewsHow health secretary’s new powers over the NHS will work
The Health and Social Care Bill, laid before Parliament on Tuesday, sets out how the health secretary could intervene in a wide range of NHS decisions and functions.
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NewsIntegrated care systems to set own constitution and pay
The new health bill will allow integrated care systems to set their own constitution, determine staff pay and raise ‘additional income’ but the health secretary will have the power to approve ICS chairs.
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NewsFirst major NHS legislation in nine years confirms DHSC power grab
The government is pressing ahead with an audacious power grab — which will allow ministers to seize decision-making over key strategic objectives and priorities from the NHS — a bill laid before Parliament today has confirmed.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: The 'once for Scotland' recovery plan
In his regular dispatch from north of the border, Henry Anderson discusses the Scottish government’s ambitious plans to fast track the health service’s recovery with the help of a new organisation
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: No safe space for mothers
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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NewsNumber 10 insists ICSs will go ahead next year
The government will press ahead with a sweeping health and social care bill before Parliament’s summer break, it has said, despite concerns from Sajid Javid.
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NewsNHSE confirms consultation on mandatory staff covid vaccination
The number of pharmacies delivering the covid-19 vaccination is set to more than double for the planned autumn booster campaign, new guidance states.
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NewsNHSE to publish the carbon footprint of every trust and ICS
NHS England will publish each integrated care system’s carbon footprint before October, under plans to track progress against the health service’s sustainability programme.
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NewsGovernment reveals plan to bring more stability to NHS pensions
The government is consulting on plans which would bring more stability to public sector pensions, including those in the NHS.
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CommentICSs should focus on relationships as much as governance
Integrated care systems must combine the software of relationships with the hardware of governance, writes Sir Chris Ham
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NewsJavid warned: Drop ‘power grab’ and press on with ICS bill
If Sajid Javid delays introduction of NHS legislation, the service will lose good managers and could sacrifice a rare consensus on health policy, the NHS Confederation is warning him today.
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NewsRevealed: NHS tech bodies wrangle over patient data sharing
Health officials have discussed giving NHS Digital more visibility over patients who opt out from having their data shared, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNew No.10 health unit will ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’
Number 10 Downing Street is setting up a new unit to oversee ‘recovery’ in the NHS and other health priorities, and ‘intervene where delivery is slowing’.
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CommentThe government's NHS data strategy missed the boat on transparency
The new data strategy is once again a lost opportunity to advance the transparency agenda – providing accessible performance data on hospitals and all other care settings, writes Alex Kafetz
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HSJ LocalHospital and primary care leaders at odds over ICS boundary changes
Primary care leaders in Essex and Suffolk are at loggerheads with some of their acute counterparts over proposals which would make integrated care systems coterminous with the county council boundaries.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: A new era dawns for specialised services
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector — contact me in confidence.
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CommentSpend big and go slow on re-organisation: the secret to fixing waiting times
As health and social care grapples with post-pandemic challenges, a look back at the effect of the original Wanless report released 20 years ago reveals some things are still the same and some radically different, writes Nicholas Timmins