All Conservative policy articles – Page 18
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NewsNew health ministers' portfolios unveiled
The Department of Health has announced the full ministerial portfolios for its new team of junior ministers.
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NewsStruggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.
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CommentNew secretary of state faces a bulging in-tray
Mike Birtwistle on why Hunt will be unable to keep health out of the news
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Comment'Dear Jeremy, no new initiatives, please'
An open letter to the new health secretary by Jeremy Taylor
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Reshuffle 2012 latest: live discussion
Join HSJ’s live online discussion regarding the ministerial reshuffle now.
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NewsJeremy Hunt replaces Andrew Lansley as health secretary
Jeremy Hunt has been appointed as health secretary, replacing Andrew Lansley, in a ministerial reshuffle. Three of the department’s other ministers have also been replaced.
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NewsExclusive: CCP research suggests competition improves hospital services
Research by the NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel, shared exclusively with HSJ, claims to provide new insight into the mechanism by which competitive pressure improves hospital services.
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NewsNHS spending vows 'lie in tatters'
Labour have attacked the government’s spending record on the NHS, claiming David Cameron would be “forever remembered” as the man who “cut the NHS not the deficit”.
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Competition panel to probe referral management
The NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel has begun a probe of the competition implications of providers operating systems to manage patient referrals.
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NewsNHS may need to reduce range of free health services after 2015, IFS warns
The most comprehensive analysis yet published of the prospects for health funding after 2015 has warned that politicians may need to increase taxes or “reconsider” the range of free services the NHS provides.
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NewsMilburn: 'tragedy' reform policies making enemy of private sector
The government’s reforms “have made the private sector less acceptable in the NHS”, former labour health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ.
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NewsSocial enterprises face losing core contracts
Social enterprises set up by former NHS staff must improve their commercial skills or risk losing their contracts in the next two or three years, a key Department of Health official has told HSJ.
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Comment'Lansley is right to say that age trumps poverty'
Health secretary is bidding to meet the core prinicples of the NHS.
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Comment'The reforms could be the coalition's poll tax'
We will know by 2015 whether the public’s NHS experiences mean Andrew Lansley has pulled off this massive gamble, says Ipsos MORI’s chief executive Ben Page.
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NewsLabour targets NHS reforms in local elections
Ed Miliband has targeted the government’s health reforms as he launched Labour’s local elections campaign, with the promise to govern for the whole country, “not just for the wealthy few”.
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NewsRegulator's dual role still unclear
Monitor is still unclear about how it can justify its additional powers over foundation trusts once it becomes healthcare sectorregulator, its executive chair has told HSJ.
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NewsDoctors to take on coalition MPs at next election
A group of NHS doctors plan to field candidates against high-profile coalition MPs at the next general election in protest at controversial government health reforms.
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NewsTwo thousand campaigners rally against Health Bill
Over 2,000 NHS staff and campaigners heard union leaders, clinicians and managers denounce the Health Bill at a rally against the government’s planned reforms in Westminster last night.
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NewsGovernment action on health 'brave', says Cameron
The prime minister David Cameron has defended the “tough” decisions being made on health and welfare, telling party activists that “fortune favours brave governments”.
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NewsLib Dems seek further Health Bill amendments
Ministers will attempt to fight off further controversy over the government’s troubled NHS reforms as the Health and Social Care Bill resumes its passage through the House of Lords today.