All Government/DH policy articles – Page 103
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HSJ Knowledge
The HMSC at 40
Jon Glasby, director HMSC, looks back at 40 years of operation and at what is still to come
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Comment
New secretary of state faces a bulging in-tray
Mike Birtwistle on why Hunt will be unable to keep health out of the news
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Comment
'Dear Jeremy, no new initiatives, please'
An open letter to the new health secretary by Jeremy Taylor
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News
DH claims £1bn saving on IT deal
The Department of Health has finally reached a deal with the National Programme for IT’s biggest provider, which it claims will save more than £1 billion and give NHS organisations freedom to choose their own IT providers.
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News
Call to scrap regional pay 'to rescue economy'
Scrapping national pay bargaining in the public sector would save more than £6 billion a year that should be used to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, an influential think-tank has urged.
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Comment
Michael White: Punchbag Lansley knocked out
Prime minister appoints an emollient figurehead to sell reforms
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News
Plans for coping with fewer staff criticised
Government departments do not have long-term plans in place for new ways of working with fewer staff, a group of MPs has warned.
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Comment
The care measurement evolution
How useful are randomised controlled trials in evaluating new ways of delivering care?
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News
NHS urged to think long-term to save
NHS organisations need to think more long term to innovate and release more savings, NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
The views of a new generation
North Western trainees voice their opinions on NHS Reforms
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Comment
The new breed must listen to survive
The raft of new NHS organisations must work towards the same goals, says Mike Farrar
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News
Commissioning board given default lead role on quality
The NHS Commissioning Board will have default responsibility for leading the response to a quality failure under plans for new quality surveillance groups.
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News
Call for NHS 111 rollout slowdown undermined
Just eight clinical commissioning groups have asked the Department of Health for an extension to the deadline for the rollout of NHS 111, despite widespread calls for the process to be slowed down.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS staff are going solo
The conditions are right for frontline staff to consider a move towards independence
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Comment
Neil Churchill: living within our means locally
It’s predicted the NHS will have to learn to live on half its long-term growth rate
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News
Mandarins' procedures to be reviewed
Whitehall civil servants may take lessons from their New Zealand counterparts in a shake-up of how government works.
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News
NHS regulator drops 'Chinese walls' plan
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has scrapped its plan to build “Chinese walls” within its organisation to separate its existing role from its future responsibility to regulate the entire NHS healthcare sector.
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News
CQC warns reform could hamper safeguarding
Advances in safeguarding patients that came out of the Shipman inquiry must not be lost amid NHS reforms, says a report on the management of controlled drugs.
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Comment
Michael Rawlins: playing fair on treatments
A few weeks ago, Steve Winyard, head of policy and campaigns at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), asked to see me.