All Wes Streeting articles – Page 11
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CommentThe voluntary sector saves the NHS money - don't shut it out
Dame Laura Lee urges the government to integrate voluntary organisations into the NHS 10-year plan, highlighting their proven ability to deliver holistic care, reduce costs, and improve patient outcomes
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.
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NewsOverseas doctors’ pay could influence remuneration review
Government pay advisers will consider doctors’ remuneration for next year in the context of long-term economic trends and alongside similar professions, including internationally, ministers have announced.
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CommentA sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Joe McManners
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The worrying ‘normal’ of maternity care
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ‘NHS is broken’ blowback
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the Labour Party conference plus some alarming developments in IT.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: Labour’s 40,000 appointments pledge is stuck in the pit stop
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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NewsHIT teams to be sent into trusts to improve efficiency
The government will send in teams of clinical experts to 20 trusts to improve theatre productivity, the health and social care secretary has announced.
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NewsStreeting ‘thinking deeply’ about overhauling NHS funding flows
The new government is “thinking deeply” about reforming NHS financial flows and incentives, Wes Streeting has said.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Streeting ‘reads the Riot Act’
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the big Streeting meeting plus a new player in primary care.
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NewsStreeting urged to stop ICB plans to ‘erode’ local authority influence
A county council is to ask the health and social care secretary to intervene over the proposed overhaul of its local integrated care board’s operating model.
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NewsI’ll reject ‘status quo’ proposals, Streeting warns officials
Wes Streeting has warned NHS England and departmental officials he will reject any proposals ”that suggest sticking with the status quo, or bids for more money without reform”.
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NewsDoctors vote to end historic pay dispute
Junior doctors have voted to accept the government’s latest pay offer – bringing to an end a bitter dispute which lasted nearly two years and saw 44 days of strikes.
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Comment‘We’re in a right pickle’, Darzi concludes
Julian Patterson applauds the wide-ranging aspirations and familiar themes of Lord Darzi’s performance review
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NewsDarzi: NHS ‘unlikely’ to meet performance targets in five years
Labour is “unlikely” to meet its flagship manifesto commitment to restore the NHS’s constitutional waiting times during this parliamentary term, Lord Darzi has warned.
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NewsShrink the centre to boost local management, Darzi concludes
The NHS needs to urgently reconfigure the “balance of its management resources”, says Lord Darzi’s report into the state of the NHS.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: ‘We’re in a right hole’
Recovering services from the covid crisis is a big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by bureau chief James Illman.
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CommentLabour needs to champion the role of NHS managers
The NHS faces unprecedented challenges, but to rebuild it, Wes Streeting must break from past political instincts and invest in effective management, laying the groundwork for long-term success in the upcoming Ten Year Plan, writes Jon Restell
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Winning over the Treasury
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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CommentReforming NICE would empower the drive to address health inequalities
Keith Syrett and Peter Littlejohns discuss NICE’s evolution, highlighting its cost-effectiveness focus, stakeholder balance, and role in healthcare prioritisation