All Government/DH policy articles – Page 132
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News
Labour attacks government on waiting times
Labour has attacked the government’s NHS reforms, claiming that longer waiting times for patients showed cuts were already starting to bite.
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Lansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses
Health secretary Andrew Lansley today defended sweeping NHS reforms against claims that GPs would qualify for banker-style bonuses and private firms would win major contracts.
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Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference
On the day the government’s radical reforms for the NHS were laid out in full in the Health and Social Care Bill, health secretary Andrew Lansley spoke to the audience at HSJ and LGC’s Public Health Congress about what the changes mean for the health service and the people who ...
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Leader
The NHS might be being rewired, but its electricity runs to much the same effect
The Health Bill has set a new record as the largest piece of NHS legislation ever tabled. Health secretary Andrew Lansley described it as “evolutionary” – the mind boggles at what he would consider “revolutionary”.
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1,600 job cuts criticised by Unison
Union leaders have attacked plans to cut 1,600 posts at a Midlands trust, warning it could lead to a possible repeat of the hospital scandal that led to hundreds of avoidable deaths.
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Comment
The NHS Commissioning Board: biggest of the big spenders
The NHS Commissioning Board’s greatest influence on quality will be through how it splashes its cash
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Comment
What happens if the health reforms work?
Anyone looking at the future of the government’s reforms is always interested in the question: “What happens if this doesn’t really work the way the government wants it to?”
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Government 'may take over flu vaccine ordering'
GPs could be forced to hand over control of ordering flu vaccine after complaints about this year’s programme, the government’s director of immunisation has suggested.
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NHS reforms 'risk patient backlash'
An influential health think tank has warned that the proposed radical changes to the NHS could turn patients against GPs because doctors are likely to start receiving “unpalatable” cash bonuses.
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Extent of health secretary's powers over NHS Commissioning Board 'surprising'
The health secretary will have the power to bypass parliament in shaping the “direction” of the NHS Commissioning Board, analysis by HSJ and law firm Beachcroft has revealed.
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HSJ Knowledge
How alcohol taxation can improve health outcomes
Alcohol misuse is one of the growing public health epidemics of this century and taxation can encourage a healthier and more responsible lifestlye for drinkers.
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News
Health Bill maintains light touch on consortia
The health bill published today maintains a light touch approach to requirements for commissioning consortia, but appears to leave wriggle room for more prescription in future.
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Make-up and duties of health and wellbeing boards revealed
The precise make-up of the new health and wellbeing boards has been set out in the Health and Social Care Bill.
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DH ordered to disclose cost of swine flu vaccine
The Department of Health has been ordered to release data on the costs of last year’s swine flu vaccination programme, after it failed to comply fully with a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Public health agenda more important than NHS, says Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the “obsessive” focus on commissioning consortia, ahead of the publication of the health and social care bill later today.
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Comment
'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'
There are too many hospitals swallowing up too much money for too little return. Which is fine until you try to close or downsize one, and all hell breaks loose.
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News
Earl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
Health minister Earl Howe has denied there is any conflict between opening up healthcare provision to more competition and encouraging collaboration between providers.
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Leader
‘Brave’ Sir David stresses freedoms and delivery
As the NHS drowns in reform, the danger of distraction grows.
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Comment
Michael White: ministers are puzzled by the BMA’s hostility
It remains a guiding principle of this column that any policy opposed by the British Medical Association can’t be all bad.