All General election 2015 articles – Page 10
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News
NHS to plan for 'transition' year in 2015-16
The coming financial year will be a ‘transition’ period with few new national requirements so the NHS ‘can focus on core aspects’ such as financial sustainability and waiting time targets, NHS England has indicated.
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Labour insists scrapping NHS competition would not require major upheaval
A legal adviser to the Labour Party has rejected claims it would have to ‘dismantle’ the commissioner-provider split in order to remove the effect of EU procurement rules on the NHS.
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Exclusive: Health leaders demand politicians set out clear NHS mandate
A broad coalition of health and social care leaders will tomorrow call on all political parties to make a manifesto commitment of at least £4bn to fund NHS service changes over the next parliament, HSJ has been told.
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Leader
Tensions grow as NHS reaches make or break month for waits
More time must be spent on primary care
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Updated: Troubled trust reveals huge waiting list
A huge, previously unreported waiting list of more than 90,000 patients has been revealed by one of England’s most troubled trusts. It comes amid an intense national drive to tackle politically sensitive waiting targets.
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Comment
NHS finances might be tight, but it's time to give more to mental health
Making tough decisions
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News
Doctors to contest ministerial seats in 2015 election
Aggrieved doctors are planning to stand against the prime minister and the health secretary at the next general election.
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Comment
Why I went on the 300 mile march to save the NHS
We oppose the government’s treatment of the NHS
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CSU independence plan put on hold
NHS England has paused a project that would enable its commissioning support units to become independent in just over two years.
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Comment
Let's challenge politicians' 'patients first' rhetoric
People are still getting left behind by ‘the system’
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NHS will not be excluded from US trade deal
A controversial proposed trade treaty between Europe and the US will not negatively impact the NHS or give US health companies new ways of legally challenging health service procurement processes, a government minister has insisted.
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Private health firms report big increases in NHS work
Three private healthcare groups have revealed big increases in the work they are doing for the NHS.
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Comment
Cancer drug announcements must be backed up with action
There’s an element of pre-election tidying
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Supplements
The challenge for the NHS to better engage with patients
NHS must find more effective ways of conversing
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Supplements
A new angle on public involvement
People power is at the heart of campaign group 38 Degrees
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Comment
Election 2015: Politicians need to get in step with the public's NHS love affair
The political debate rages on
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Comment
Michael White: What the Scottish vote means for the NHS
Yes/no vote affects the whole UK system
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'Safeguard our NHS' in trade deal
Most voters in key battleground constituencies want to see the NHS safeguarded from a new trade deal which campaigners claim threatens privatisation of health services, according to a new survey.