All Conservatives articles – Page 25
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NewsCivil servant pay freeze announced
A pay freeze for 750,000 public sector high earners, including senior NHS managers, GPs, council chiefs and judges, has been announced by chancellor Alistair Darling.
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NewsAndrew Lansley pledges to slash NHS bureaucracy
Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley has promised that a Tory government would cut spending on NHS admin by a third.
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CommentMichael White on Labour policy
I had scarcely arrived in Brighton for Labour’s last pre-election conference than a succession of party veterans had pinned me to the nearest wall to explain why the party is doomed - or why it is not.
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LeaderSHAs face an uncertain destiny as political friends desert them
Are strategic health authorities staring into the abyss?
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NewsGordon Brown pledges to 'beat cancer in this generation'
Prime minister Gordon Brown has pledged to “beat cancer in this generation”.
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NewsMike O'Brien tells SHAs to 'justify their existence'
Health minister Mike O’Brien has called on strategic health authorities to “justify their existence”, saying more of their budgets should be devolved to commissioners.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on no-frills healthcare
Who actually likes Ryanair? For the benefit of sustainably minded readers who would not dream of blowing their hard earned moolah on a cheap weekend in Bratislava, the Ryanair pricing model starts with an unfeasibly small headline fare, supplemented by an increasingly imaginative list of charges.
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CommentMichael White on NHS spending cuts
Gordon Brown’s belated admission of looming spending cuts unleashed a masochistic torrent of bid and counter-bid by leading politicians.
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS cost cutting
At the start of last week, the papers were obsessed with Gordon Brown’s first use of the C-word. By the end of the week politicians of all hues were at it and it was impossible to get away from it.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: NHS carbon reduction
‘The NHS could immediately achieve much larger savings if the SHAs, Monitor and CQC stopped emitting the whole time… after all there is carbon in flatulence isn’t there?’
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CommentMichael White on NHS spending and the McKinsey report
As if last week wasn’t more than usually nightmare-ish enough for the NHS’s managerial officer class, with a convicted murderer’s birthmarks and the leaked McKinsey report providing only two of many horrid headlines, this week started with a fresh jolt.
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Comment'People, the NHS needs managers'
The media seized on HSJ’s scoop on the Department of Health-commissioned McKinsey report.
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NewsKing's Fund: higher NHS productivity could need investment up front
Reducing variations in NHS productivity would in some cases require more investment in services rather than less, the King’s Fund has suggested.
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News‘Unpopular NHS spending decisions should fall to PCTs’
Unpopular decisions about NHS spending should be made locally by primary care trusts, the Social Market Foundation said.
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CommentJon Restell on NHS managers fighting back
The politics for managers in all four UK health services are tough, and the fiscal squeeze and a forthcoming general election make them tougher.
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NewsMcKinsey report: politicians accused of not facing reality
The NHS Confederation has warned that the febrile political environment has “left behind all rational debate” over health service funding over the next five years.
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NewsNHS spending: McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn
The McKinsey report leaked by HSJ last week lays bare the tough issues managers have to grasp as the funding squeeze looms, explains Sally Gainsbury
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NewsNHS boat scheme defended by council
A Hull councillor has defended a controversial NHS scheme that uses taxpayers’ money to train unemployed teenagers to sail boats.
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NewsUK faces hard choices on public spending, Alistair Darling warns
Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to announce that the UK faces “hard choices on public spending” after it emerges from recession.