All Stephen Dorrell articles – Page 3
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NewsDH rejects criticism of delayed transfer of care measure
The Department of Health has rejected criticism of the measure it uses to track delayed transfers of care between NHS providers and social care.
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CommentMichael White: Government spin leaves NHS dizzy
Tory conference provides the politics but not the answers
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NewsHospitals urged to follow Salford's staffing example
All hospitals should publish the staffing levels on their wards on a daily basis, the Commons health committee has recommended.
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NewsDorrell: CQC failed on 'independence of action'
The chairman of the Commons health committee has revealed his concerns over the relationship between the Care Quality Commission and the parliamentary health service ombudsman.
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NewsMPs criticise Lansley reforms over A&E problems
The Commons health committee has put part of the blame for recent accident and emergency performance on Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms.
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CommentMichael White: profound questions about booze and fags
It is too easy to cry “outrage” over packaging and prices
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: NHS ‘faces £60bn funding gap by 2025’
NHS England demands major service change to close the health service’s “eye-watering” funding gap, NHS England has disclosed to HSJ.
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Comment'I'm not in favour of any radical new departures'
Stephen Dorrell assesses the NHS on its 65th anniversary
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NewsDorrell warns 'Nicholson challenge' will remain in place
Health bosses will have to keep pursuing efficiency and savings after the next general election, the chair of the Commons health select committee has told MPs.
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NewsHSJ Live 19.06.2013: Fallout from CQC revelations
The publication and fallout from the independent investigation into the Care Quality Commission’s handling of Morecambe Bay, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsHow HSJ has covered the DH's history of underspending
The 2013 Budget showed the Department of Health is on course for its biggest annual underspend this parliament. In October last year HSJ exclusively revealed the DH had returned almost £3bn to the Treasury in the previous two years. Here is how HSJ has covered the department’s recent history of ...
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LeaderMPs’ push for flexibility should end underspending
There is mismatch between how FTs and the DH manage spending
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NewsHSJ Live 19.3.2013: Gary Walker tells story to health committee
Coverage of the appearance of the sacked former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive at the health committee, and today’s other news.
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NewsMPs call for abolition of 'inflexible' NHS spending restraints
An influential committee of MPs has called for “unnecessarily inflexible” restrictions on NHS spending to be “abolished”, to allow providers to invest their accumulated reserves in reforming services.
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NewsDorrell intervenes in Gary Walker gagging order row
Health select committee chair Stephen Dorrell has written to the health secretary raising concern about the application of a confidentiality agreement signed by Gary Walker, the former United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive.
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CommentWe urgently need to reimagine healthcare
We need the service to deliver health and social care
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CommentMichael White: new thinking on hospital closures
The public and MPs are at odds over hospitals like Lewisham
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CommentThe NHS cannot ignore DH underspends
The NHS must decide what has to go unspent if providers are to spend their surpluses
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Health committee calls for swift action on value based pricing
Swift action is needed to ensure a smooth changeover to a new system of pricing for the drugs used by the NHS, the Commons health committee has said in a report today.
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NewsMPs call for urgent 'overhaul' of CQC governance
The chair of the health select committee has described it as “extraordinary” the Care Quality Commission is still not clear about its core purpose, five years after it was set up.