All Government/DH policy articles – Page 74
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Supplements
Top chief executives roundtable: The new, post-election era brings new questions
The first of three panel discussions
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News
Exclusive: Prior 'not at all against' procurement 'Sunshine Act'
The minister for NHS productivity has revealed that the government may legislate to ensure the relationship between doctors and medical device suppliers is above board.
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News
Budget: Four more years of public sector pay restraint
Chancellor George Osborne has announced four further years of public sector pay restraint, in a surprise move as part of today’s summer Budget.
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News
Exclusive: Plan to combine regulators and safety in single 'new body'
Many of the functions of Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are expected to be brought together in a single ‘new body’, which would also take on new patient safety and improvement work, HSJ has been told.
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News
NICE director: NHS England 'didn't like answer' on safe staffing
A senior figure at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suggested NHS England scrapped its work on safe staffing guidance because it ‘didn’t like the answer to the question’.
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News
Concerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks rigour'
Experts have criticised NHS England’s latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used ‘lacks rigour’.
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News
Exclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Call for student nurses to lose taxpayer grant funding
Academics have called for an ‘urgent’ overhaul of the funding system for training nurses and midwives.
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News
HEE to deliver 23,000 new nurses by 2019
More than 23,000 extra nurses will be trained over the next four years to help meet growing demand in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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News
More than 60 managers have faced fit and proper complaints
A total of 65 NHS chief executives and senior board directors have been subject to complaints under fit and proper person regulations, HSJ can reveal.
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Leader
What is an 'acceptable' deficit for the NHS provider sector in 2015-16?
No Grexit for NHS providers
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News
Health secretary could overturn devolved decisions
Decisions made under Greater Manchester’s proposed devolved health and social care system could be overturned by the health secretary if they think the decisions are “wrong”, a minister has indicated.
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News
Regulators make it harder to improve care, special measures trust claims
A trust in special measures believes regulatory intervention has made it harder to improve patient care, the minutes of a high level ministerial meeting reveal.
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HSJ Local
Government backed hospital rebuild still awaiting final sign-off
STRUCTURE: A £480m hospital rebuild backed by the Treasury more than a year ago is still awaiting final sign-off before construction can begin.
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News
Exclusive: NHS warned focus on finance risks 'disastrous consequence'
The chair of the inquiry into care failings at Morecambe Bay has warned of a “disastrous consequence” for the NHS if it focuses too much on financial savings at the expense of patient safety.
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News
Exclusive: Leaked NHS England study links nursing numbers and care quality
A leaked NHS England study has revealed a significant relationship between the number of nurses on duty in hospitals and 40 indicators of patient care and outcomes.
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News
Hunt: 5,000 new GPs the 'maximum' in five years
Jeremy Hunt has said recruiting 5,000 additional GPs would be the ‘maximum’ possible within the next five years.
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News
Treasury slammed for targeting public health underspend
This year’s council public health budgets were targeted for cuts by the Treasury because of a multimillion pound underspend in 2013-14.
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Comment
The government is fighting itself with public health cuts
Either councils deliver fewer services or they should ask for ringfenced grants for individual services, says Tony Travers