All Government/DH policy articles – Page 181
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NewsPCTs find there are no shortcuts to freedom
Pursuing the rewards for world class commissioning unveiled by the Department of Health this week looks likely to prove a test of every PCT’s whole operational strategy. Helen Crump reports
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NewsStart NHS pay talks now, Steve Barnett urges
NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett has urged NHS employers, politicians and unions to get around the negotiating table now to start discussions about pay after 2010-11.
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NewsTories will increase NHS budget, Andrew Lansley says
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has confirmed the Conservatives’ commitment to increasing the NHS budget in real terms after 2011 while calling on managers to justify the extra spend.
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NewsSteve Barnett says it’s 'make or break' for the NHS
The NHS is facing a “make or break” moment in its history, NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett told delegates at the conference today.
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NewsIt's official: NHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity rose by 1.2 per cent in 2007 and 0.7 per cent in 2006, official statistics show, reversing a seven year stretch of declining productivity.
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NewsNHS waiting times up sharply
The number of patients waiting more than eight weeks for an outpatient appointment has shot up by nearly a third in the space of a month, Department of Health figures reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy a happy workforce equals an efficient trust
If trusts are serious about improving the wellbeing of their staff, they need to evaluate the needs of their workers from the outset. This helps avoid the usual pitfalls of developing programmes that fail to tackle key problems and can be a waste of time and resource.
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NewsAndy Burnham called on to keep up pace of NHS reform
Health secretary Andy Burnham has been called on to keep up momentum on NHS reform.
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MPs call for NHS consultancy costs to be made public
The daily rates of external management consultants employed by NHS organisations could soon be published, if the demands of the Commons health committee are met.
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NewsAlan Johnson leaves Department of Health
Alan Johnson is to become home secretary in Gordon Brown’s post-election cabinet reshuffle.
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NewsGovernment may take further powers over foundation trusts
The government is considering clawing back powers from foundation trusts in response to the Mid Staffordshire scandal.
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NewsA decade of the national clinical directors - aka the czars
The NHS’s czars, or national clinical directors, have been hailed as a success.
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NewsDavid Nicholson warns NHS: 'all bets are off'
David Nicholson has told HSJ “all bets are off”, as the health service prepares itself now for impending spending cuts.
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NewsConfed urges trusts to open up to avoid FOI deluge
NHS organisations are being urged to become more transparent in light of a steep increase in requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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CommunityCrystal balls
Patients will have leapt for joy now it is easier than ever to find a genuine crystal healer, as opposed to the phony sort.
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CommunityBank to basics
Primary care trusts were unfazed when health select committee MPs slated their financial abilities earlier this year.
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Michael White on the big split over ISTCs
Andrew Lansley has been out and about attacking Alan Johnson’s record as a failed health secretary (“the postman who hasn’t delivered”) on the grounds he has not closed the health gap between rich and poor - and also let the NHS’s Blairite choice agenda atrophy.
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NewsTreasury U-turn on PFI takes pressure off DH capital budget
A Treasury U-turn over accounting rules for hospitals built under the private finance initiative has given the Department of Health’s capital budget a reprieve.
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LeaderNHS cuts will be chance for staff to be new radicals
Existing NHS systems will not cope with the financial crisis enveloping the public sector.
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HSJ KnowledgeSupporting long term conditions in the NHS
As the number of people living with long term conditions rises, Helen Mooney looks at the government’s plans to improve their care and help them navigate the health and social services maze