All Government/DH policy articles – Page 163
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NewsNHS 'must decentralise'
The NHS must be decentralised and freed from government control if it is to thrive, according to think tank Demos.
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NHS 'not ready for budget cuts'
At least 84 per cent of NHS financial directors are ill-prepared for the cost cutting programme the government has embarked on, a study has claimed.
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NewsAndy Burnham told to 'take care' over paying for quality
The government’s announcement that it would incorporate greater measures of quality into payment by results has been welcomed.
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NewsAndy Burnham warns NHS managers not to conduct 'mini spending reviews'
NHS managers must not conduct their own “mini spending reviews” in advance of political decisions about NHS funding, the health secretary has warned.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons.
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NewsManagers fearful over DH hit list
National and regional managers have been warned not to take overzealous action against those named on the first list of trusts not meeting minimum NHS standards.
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NewsGPs win 'unbelievable' deal over swine flu vaccination
Questions have been raised over whether the deal brokered by GPs and the government to deliver swine flu vaccination represents “good value for money”.
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NewsCommissioners must use more 'nous'
Local managers will have to “use a bit more nous” when commissioning services in order to ride out the recession, according to health minister Mike O’Brien.
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CommentChris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets
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NewsPremium rate call charges to be outlawed in NHS
The Department of Health is to issue trusts and GPs with guidance on reviewing their current contractual arrangements for telephony services.
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CommentMedia Watch: Andy Burnham and patient experience
This week the press went to town on how health secretary Andy Burnham is planning to shackle hospital budgets to patient experience for the first time.
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NewsGovernment set to issue a five year spending plan for NHS
November’s pre-budget report could spell out the government’s health spending plans not just for the next 18 months but for the next five years, HSJ has been told.
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NewsMP calls for Welsh ambulance service to be 'disbanded'
The under-performing Welsh ambulance service should be disbanded and run by the new local NHS boards, says Plaid Cymru health spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones.
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NewsNHS to ban premium rate numbers
Premium rate telephone numbers will be banned for all lines used by patients and the public to contact the NHS, Health Minister Mike O’Brien has announced.
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NewsScottish boards should introduce compensation caps
Soaring NHS compensation payouts in Scotland following medical blunders have prompted a call for a cap on the payments from Labour politicians.
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NewsThirty four trusts not meeting minimum standards
Thirty hospital trusts and four ambulance trusts have been identified as not meeting minimum standards under the NHS performance regime.
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NewsKing's Fund: higher NHS productivity could need investment up front
Reducing variations in NHS productivity would in some cases require more investment in services rather than less, the King’s Fund has suggested.
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Rival plan found only half of McKinsey savings
Rival consultancy firm KPMG told the Department of Health it could make less than half the savings McKinsey claimed were needed.
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CommentMike Farrar on QIPP - quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
QIPP needs to become woven into the NHS’s DNA, and efficiencies come from the avoidable use of NHS resources, effective partnerships and best practice
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NewsThink tanks vie to produce new ideas on controlling NHS costs
Giving clinicians responsibility for how to spend money and more central control over NHS procurement have been proposed by think tanks as alternative answers to making savings.