All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 42
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NewsMinister denies Carter was 'pressured' into £5bn savings figure
The author of a report on NHS efficiency was not pressured into putting a headline savings figure on his initial findings, a government minister has said.
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NewsExclusive: Letters show how CCGs directed to up activity plans
Letters seen by HSJ reveal how NHS England ordered clinical commissioning groups to change their contracts with acute providers to reflect an assumption that hospital activity would grow this year.
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NewsHunt: 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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LeaderHunt’s deal for doctors forces primary care to be top priority
GP plan cements Hunt’s plan for the NHS
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NewsUpdated: Hunt tells GPs 'deliver your side of the bargain'
The government plans to introduce financial incentives to attract GPs into under-doctored areas in a major shake-up of general practice.
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Comment'Rent seeking' in the NHS is coming from all angles
To increase wealth without creating new wealth
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NewsLeadership inquiry: Cutting organisations could help halt crisis
There should be fewer NHS organisations to avoid management talent being spread too thin, a high profile report on the leadership challenge has recommended.
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NewsCarter review sets out plan to save NHS £5bn a year
A law could be introduced to force medical sales representatives to report all financial relationships with hospitals in a bid to drive down NHS procurement costs, a government backed review has said.
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NewsCarter to unveil hospital efficiency 'index'
A landmark review of NHS productivity is to produce a new measure for rating every hospital in England on the efficiency with which it uses staff and resources.
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NewsHunt interview: Agency cap needed to correct 'market failure'
Jeremy Hunt has defended his controversial move to cap spending on agency staff. The health secretary said current rates paid by the health service are “not market forces at work, but market failure”.
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NewsFrancis criticises NHS England safe staffing intervention
Sir Robert Francis has expressed serious concerns over NHS England’s decision to suspend the work he recommended to determine safe staffing guidelines.
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NewsNew ratings to make CCGs more accountable, says health secretary
The performance of clinical commissioning groups will be measured by a new set of metrics, Jeremy Hunt told NHS leaders today.
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NewsHunt: Trusts to be given procurement savings targets
Hospitals will be expected to make set savings in their procurement processes from January, the health secretary announced today.
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NewsExclusive: CQC to rate hospitals’ efficiency
The health secretary has asked the Care Quality Commission to include a hospital’s efficiency as one of the “key criteria” for rating the quality of its leadership.
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NewsTwo key waiting time targets abolished
Two headline waiting times targets for planned care are being dropped by the NHS on the basis they are creating ‘perverse incentives’, HSJ can reveal.