All Government/DH policy articles – Page 80
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Chancellor warns of further public sector pay restraint
Pay restraint for public sector staff including NHS workers will continue into the next parliament, chancellor George Osborne told MPs today.
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Mental health providers face finding £40m to meet new targets
At least half of the additional £80m investment pledged to mental health providers to help them deliver new access targets will come from existing budgets
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Academic health science networks bid for greater strategic role
The most advanced academic health science networks should play a greater strategic role in service reconfigurations, leading AHSN figures have said.
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Hunt: Additional funds will be linked to efficiency and tech
Jeremy Hunt has indicated that £1.5bn of additional funding to be allocated to the NHS in 2015-16 will be contingent on hospitals providing plans to become more “efficient and sustainable” and to deliver “a commitment to a paperless NHS by 2018”.
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HSJ Partners
Delivering new models of care: a recipe to avoid failure
Transformational change need not fall at the first hurdle
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Exclusive: Francis whistleblowing review delayed
A review of NHS whistleblowing by Sir Robert Francis QC will be delayed until next year, HSJ can reveal.
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Parliament gives 'zero harm' bill financial backing
The government has given financial backing to a bill that legislates for zero harm in the NHS and changes the way professional regulators determine fitness to practise.
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Comment
National tariff must balance risk between national and local commissioners
Harder to work together
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Exclusive: Patient choice is not key to improving performance, says Hunt
Patient choice is no longer fundamental to improving NHS performance, the health secretary has told HSJ
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Dorrell to leave parliament
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has announced that he will not be standing as an MP at the next election. Instead he will be joining consultant KPMG.
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New NHS England partnership with pharma to speed up drug access
Government plans for closer working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry will make the new generation of precision medicines more affordable for the NHS, the minister for life sciences has said.
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Monitor chief supports 'significant' investment in mental health
David Bennett has called for a ‘significant reallocation of resources’ towards mental health to put it on an equal footing with physical health
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Integration will not save money, HSJ commission concludes
Political leaders’ belief that health and social care integration is the “silver bullet” for the NHS’s financial difficulties is a “myth” and “Messiah concept” that has no realistic prospect of success.
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Hunt: Transparency not targets will achieve 'world class' NHS
The NHS must adopt a different approach to performance management that focuses on the transparent provision of information rather than chasing targets or extra resource, the health secretary is due to say
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Patient safety bill to legislate for zero NHS harm
The NHS could be required to achieve ‘zero avoidable harm’ if a government backed bill being driven through Parliament by the MP for Stafford makes it onto the statute books.
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Ombudsman strengthens procurement checks after NAO probe
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has handed its board the role of reviewing and approving deals over £100,000
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Comment
Policymakers were too optimistic about the better care fund
Rethink how the integration policy works