All General election 2015 articles – Page 5
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Comment
We can't just 'do the same again' to make £22bn of NHS efficiencies
The stretching challenge
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News
Jeremy Hunt: NHS funding will be settled in the summer
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has indicated the Conservatives would meet the NHS’s funding requirements, but declined to specifically say they would increase spending by the £8bn sum identified by national officials.
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News
Ed Miliband pledges cap on profits of independent providers in NHS
Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour led government would impose a profit cap on private providers of NHS ‘clinical services’. He made the announcement at a speech to launch the party’s general election campaign in east London today.
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Leader
How a new government can ride the 'crisis' tide to effect change
Leading the health service out of difficulty
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Comment
The budget is just papering over gaping holes in healthcare
There’s little mention of healthcare
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Comment
MPs fight over health and social care as NHS becomes an election battlefield
NHS finances report sparks row
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Comment
The independent sector can help the NHS invest in new care models
A clinical commissioner’s perspective
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News
King's Fund disputes Labour plan to exempt NHS from EU rules
Labour’s election proposal to make the NHS exempt from European Union procurement law cannot be implemented unless a future government curbs the independence of foundation trusts, the King’s Fund has said.
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Comment
Culture change will make or break devo Manc reform
Solutions are needed to combat the delivery risks of devolution
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News
Unions call an end to NHS pay dispute
NHS unions have officially ended their pay dispute with the government by accepting a 1 per cent pay rise and committing to future talks on reform of Agenda for Change.
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Comment
The explosion in Scottish waiting times is a political timebomb
An explosion in Scottish waiting times
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News
Care.data records extraction won’t begin until ‘after election’
Commissioners involved in the Care.data pilot programme will not start extracting information from GP patient records until after the May general election, a senior NHS England figure has said.
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News
Exclusive: Lamb proposes single department for health and social care
Care minister Norman Lamb has told HSJ that he wants to create a single government department for health and social care by joining budgets at a national level.