All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 18
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NewsHunt: I still need to win NHS funding argument with chancellor
Jeremy Hunt has acknowledged more funding will be needed for the NHS but warned he has not yet won the argument with the chancellor.
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NewsNew league table to rank trusts on procurement
Hospitals will be publicly ranked on the prices they pay for routine goods in a new league table, Jeremy Hunt announced today.
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NewsHSJ Live 08.11.17: Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt speeches - catch up
Simon Stevens made a significant intervention ahead of the budget
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NewsNHS England picks Babylon for flagship patient app pilot
NHS England has picked two private digital services to pilot a new universal NHS patient app that provides access to health records, NHS 111 and privacy preferences through their smartphones.
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NewsExclusive: Government to announce single NHS workforce strategy
The health secretary will announce plans for a new national workforce strategy designed to help secure the long term supply of nurses and doctors for the NHS.
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NewsHopson: NHS leaders' careers at risk over 'impossible targets'
NHS leaders are being held to “unjust and unfair” standards by the centre, with careers put at risk over “impossible” performance targets, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson has said.
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NewsExclusive: More than 50 trusts yet to carry out post-Grenfell fire checks
More than 50 NHS trusts have confirmed they have not had a fire service inspection since the Grenfell Tower disaster – despite all providers being ordered to arrange them just days after the fire.
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NewsBCF 'escalation' process threatens spending plans
Several councils have been placed in a better care fund “escalation” process due to government concerns over their performance on reducing delayed transfers of care, Local Government Chronicle reports.
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NewsMcNeil: Trust boards not looking at e-prescribing 'need to be sacked'
NHS’s top digital clinician has said acute trust boards that are not looking seriously at electronic prescribing should be sacked.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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NewsSystem is at 'full stretch' warns new NHS Improvement chair
The new chair of NHS Improvement has told MPs it is “obvious” the NHS is at “full stretch” and needs more money.
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NewsNew safety regulator could be given power to fine trusts
Ministers plan to give the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch tough new powers including the ability to fine organisations and staff for failing to cooperate with its inquiries.
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CommentCowper's Cut: Productivity and pressure
With Jeremy Hunt saying that future pay rises might be partly linked to productivity improvements, Andy Cowper points out that measuring productivity in healthcare is hard, even as the pressure increases cheating instances
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NewsDozens of councils face funding cuts for poor DTOCs performance
Thirty two local authorities have been warned by ministers their adult social care allocations could be cut next year if their delayed transfer of care performance does not significantly improve, HSJ has learned
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CommentUpdated: How a training scheme could transform clinical leadership
Ali Raza suggests providing NHS General Management Training Scheme to undergraduate nurse and medical students to produce the next generation of clinical leaders. UPDATED TO INCLUDE INFOGRAPHIC (see attachment at bottom of page)
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NewsGovernment seeks to halt GPs leaving profession
Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce a new government backed indemnity scheme for GPs in England later today.
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NewsMore funding needed to lift pay cap, warn Stevens and Mackey
The government will need to provide the extra cash needed to lift the public sector pay cap in the NHS, Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey told MPs.
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NewsNHS pay rises will be 'linked to productivity', says Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the cap on pay rises for NHS staff has been scrapped but any change would be tied to a deal on productivity.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Why the MBA method to NHS reform may fail
Andy Cowper on how management by admonishment is not a good idea in the case of the NHS
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NewsHealth secretary urged to act on CAMHS after teenager's suicide
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been asked to consider the lack of commissioned services for children too anxious to attend hospital appointments following the death of a teenage boy.