All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 222
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NewsQuango cuts could cost 800 jobs
Government plans to cut arm’s length bodies could reduce Department of Health spending by £250m and cost 800 jobs, HSJ has estimated.
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News‘Shared decisions’ mean fewer operations
Better informed patients would want fewer operations, saving the NHS £150m, according to work by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning for outcomes
The recent report from The Nuffield Trust/The King’s Fund Where next for commissioning in the English NHS? (Smith et al 2010) describes the Health Service as reaching a ‘fork in the road’.
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News177 bodies 'to face bonfire of the quangos'
Government ministers have drawn up a list of 177 taxpayer-funded bodies, including around 30 health organisations, which will be abolished in a “bonfire of the quangos”, it has been reported.
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NewsDH to pay £18m to stricken FT
The Department of Health has agreed to lend £18m to a struggling foundation trust.
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CommentPublic health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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NewsDH keeping a close eye on local NHS reconfiguration plans
The government has been intensely monitoring local reconfigurations and their political sensitivity for the last 10 months, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRose Gibb lawsuit bill could pass £250,000
The government’s legal bill to defend the decision to dismiss Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells chief executive Rose Gibb is likely to match the £265,000 she has been awarded, HSJ understands.
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NewsEight PCTs to share single management
Representatives of eight London primary care trusts have agreed to put their organisations into three clusters under one management framework, saving £48m.
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CommentMedia Watch: When is a U-turn not a U-turn?
When is a U-turn not a U-turn? When the policy being revised belongs to the previous government, argues Tory health minister Simon Burns, not without reason.
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NewsKing’s Fund criticises GPs on dementia diagnosis
GPs are “unable or unwilling” to recognise dementia symptoms, evidence presented to the King’s Fund suggests.
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NewsDH critical of loophole in pension rules
The Department of Health has said community service social enterprises should not exploit a loophole that would allow them to give new staff access to the NHS pension scheme.
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NewsIT shake-up leaves key components unaltered
A shake-up of NHS IT announced by the government has left key elements of the national programme for IT unchanged.
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NewsLIFT planners try to beat project clampdown date
Around £300m worth of agreed primary sector capital projects are at risk if next month’s spending review scraps the projects in the local improvement finance trust programme pipeline.
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NewsBacteria linked to sink misuse
The Department of Health has set up a working group to look at the safety of hospital taps following reports of antibiotic resistant infections tracked to bacteria found in wash basins.
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NewsContinence care criticised
People with continence problems face a “life sentence” of suffering due to poorly organised NHS care, a report said claimed.
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NewsNicholson outlines further transition details
GPs must not be “dragooned” into forming particular consortia, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told chiefs in a letter outlining the next stage of the transition.
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HSJ Knowledge
Commissioning for outcomes
The report from The Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund Where next for commissioning in the English NHS? describes the Health Service as reaching a “fork in the road”.
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NewsWhite paper leads to shake up in top posts at SHAs
UPDATED: Department of Health announces managers who will lead the transition implementing the white paper.
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NewsGovernment announces major NHS IT shakeup
The government has announced significant changes to the National Programme for IT, which it says will give more choice and flexibility to NHS organisations.