All Government/DH policy articles – Page 106
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HSJ KnowledgeHow patients could benefit from top-up payments
Top-up payments are a clinically and economically viable way of increasing choice and allowing the NHS to reshape services, say Mo Girach and Ryan Irwin.
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News
Competition panel to probe referral management
The NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel has begun a probe of the competition implications of providers operating systems to manage patient referrals.
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NewsSocial care cuts pile pressure on NHS
Two thirds of NHS leaders believe cuts to council spending have impacted on their services over the past year, prompting warnings that the system is “heading for collapse”.
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CommentJohn Deffenbaugh: why the NHS and local government jigsaw can fit together this time
There have been many attempts to bring the NHS and local government closer together.
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NewsNHS may need to reduce range of free health services after 2015, IFS warns
The most comprehensive analysis yet published of the prospects for health funding after 2015 has warned that politicians may need to increase taxes or “reconsider” the range of free services the NHS provides.
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CommentMike Farrar: steps to success for commissioning board mandate
Six keys to creating the right conditions for success
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CommentThe NHS must address its blind spot on older people's services
End ageism and care will improve for all.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS innovations on child poverty: financial inclusion interventions
Ending child poverty by 2020 is a UK aim.
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NewsPolitical support will keep pipeline flowing, says Kershaw
Political support is there to make the change needed for a sustainable provider sector, the man setting up the NHS Trust Development Authority has said.
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NewsNew surveillance groups not 'command and control'
Planned new “quality surveillance groups” are not an attempt to impose “command and control” on the new system, the senior civil servant leading the work has said.
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CommentThe brave new world of managed failure
Increased power means Monitor will have a fight on its hands.
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Comment'The secrecy of information in the NHS is absurd'
The information strategy is high on aspiration, but short on direction.
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NewsMilburn: 'tragedy' reform policies making enemy of private sector
The government’s reforms “have made the private sector less acceptable in the NHS”, former labour health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: commissioning board will develop CSSs beyond assurance period
The NHS Commissioning Board will continue to support and develop commissioning support services after “checkpoint three”, the end of the formal assurance process.
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NewsUnison conference to target held wages
Unison will open its national conference with a fresh attack against wage freezes and caps for health, council and other public sector workers.
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NewsFTs warn of 'regulatory driven failure' under NHS reforms
Foundation trusts are lobbying Monitor to ensure financially challenged providers will be able to “temporarily” close protected NHS services under their new regulatory regime.
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NewsNHS 111 roll out delayed
The government has extended the deadline for the roll out of NHS 111 by up to six months following pressure from unions and clinical commissioning groups.
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Comment'Reform could lead a transition to a non-hierarchical NHS'
Charles Alessi on implementing the reforms.
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NewsLansley expects 'nearly all' CCGs to be authorised by deadline
Andrew Lansley has declared that he expects to see close to 100 per cent of clinical commissioning groups fully authorised by next April.
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News'Budget for health' to set out future ambitions
Andrew Lansley hopes to establish an annual “budget for health” which will become the parliamentary set piece debate on the service.