All Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) articles – Page 246

  • News

    DH promises to pay Maidstone legal bill

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has agreed to underwrite the massive legal bill Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust could face if Rose Gibb wins her controversial court case.

  • News

    DH looks to PCT property sales to balance its books

    2008-12-10T12:34:00Z

    The sale of up to 6.5bn of primary care trust property will help the Department of Health out of the looming 16bn hole in its capital spending limit.The limit imposed on the DH and NHS by the Treasury will be jeopardised next April when new accountancy rules mean private finance ...

  • News

    Monitor attempts to keep DH 'at bay'

    2008-11-06T09:00:00Z

    Monitor and the Department of Health could be heading for another tussle over central direction versus local freedoms.

  • Leader

    DH faces turmoil over tariff regime

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    Is there going to be tariff turmoil for the second time in three years?

  • News

    DH intervention forces cancer rethink

    2008-09-25T09:00:00Z

    A primary care trust has been forced to review its plans to centralise specialist gastrointestinal cancer services after what is believed to be an unprecedented intervention by the Department of Health.

  • News

    DH will tackle rift between senior managers and staff

    2008-06-19T09:00:00Z

    Improving strained relationships between trust senior managers and staff is to become a top priority for the Department of Health.

  • News

    DH backs down on care record consent

    2008-06-19T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is considering making it easier for patients to opt out of the electronic care record service, officials told a Commons committee this week.

  • News

    DH warns Treasury of chaos after accountancy rule changes

    2008-06-12T09:00:00Z

    Department of Health officials warned the Treasury that accountancy rule changes affecting the private finance initiative would ‘throw the NHS system into chaos’.

  • News

    DH toughens line on GP exception reporting

    2008-05-08T09:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.

  • News

    DH poaches GP guarantee payments to fund pay rise

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has begun its clawback of the controversial minimum practice income guarantee by accepting a pay recommendation for GPs that would give practices an average net increase of 0.2 per cent.The move came as other NHS staff groups were offered a three-year pay deal worth 2.75 per ...

  • News

    DH slated over freedom of information record

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has been lambasted for the way it handles requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

  • News

    DH heralds bigger role for pharmacies

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is to draw up plans for primary care trusts to commission more services from pharmacists.

  • News

    DH knew commercial director was under investigation

    2008-01-31T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health was aware its commercial director was being investigated over the alleged backdating of share options at the time of his appointment. And it emerged he is being given over £100,000 per year tax free by the government to pay for luxury London accommodation.

  • News

    DH breakdown still shows up unallocated millions

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    A breakdown of NHS allocations for 2008-09 provided to HSJ by the Department of Health continues to suggest that a significant amount of resources are not yet allocated.