All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 59
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News
CCGs defy Hunt by planning to increase competition for out-of-hours GP care
More than one in five clinical commissioning groups are planning to “introduce” competition for out-of-hours primary care in the next year, an exclusive HSJ survey reveals.
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Clinical commissioners say GPs under pressure as A&E row escalates
NHS Clinical Commissioners, which represents a large number of clinical commissioning groups, has said GP “workloads are at breaking points and GPs are ready to buckle under the strain”, which will affect willingness to take part in commissioning.
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Hunt plans £260m to help hospitals go digital
Hospitals are due to be funded to improve their “outdated” paper patient notes and prescriptions, under plans expected to be announced by the health secretary.
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Comment
Michael White: two cheers for the Queen's Speech
The pitfalls of the Care Bill and health tourism
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: the mutating baseline
What to do with illogical policy or unworkable budgets
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HSJ Knowledge
How a duty of candour will affect a culture of openness
The NHS needs more than statutory requirements
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News
Exclusive: Panic over Hunt plan to 'announce' A&E rescue fund
Jeremy Hunt is seeking to announce a £300-£400m fund to “solve” the accident and emergency performance dive, but the money may not be available, according to emails seen by HSJ.
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Hunt promises CQC extra funding for new inspection regime
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the Care Quality Commission will be given additional funding to pay for its new inspection regime.
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Comment
Michael White: Hunt picks a fight with the nurses
Salvoes have been lobbed between ministers and the RCN
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Comment
The NHS is in real danger of being unaffordable
Health bodies are desperately trying to save money
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News
Berwick: I'm optimistic about the future of the NHS
A “better” NHS would involve redesign of service delivery but the answer is not in finding the “right number of agencies”, according to the man leading the government’s zero harm review.
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Government backs liabilities of national NHS property firm
The Department of Health has announced it will fund any income shortfalls of its newly created NHS property company, in a move widely interpreted as aiming to assure private sector investors about their assets.
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HSJ Knowledge
Seizing leadership opportunities in the NHS
How the latest leadership literature applies to the service
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News
Healthwatch chief admits delayed start for some areas
The chief executive of Healthwatch England has admitted some local branches are not yet established but said it will help resolve problems as “quickly as possible”, in an interview with HSJ.
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Comment
How Gandhi's words speak volumes to the NHS today
What can the NHS learn from Mahatma Gandhi’s key principles?
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Blogs
Jeremy Hunt's first hand NHS experience
All the old cynics who dismissed ministers’ plans to spend time working on the NHS front line as a cheap and stupid publicity stunt were confounded this week by Jeremy Hunt.Reflecting on the time he spent on an accident and emergency department in Watford, the health secretary noted the “dramatic” ...
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Health secretary working in hospital A&E
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is working in Watford General Hospital’s accident and emergency department today as part of an initiative to give health ministers and officials frontline experience, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Time for the NHS to import innovation
The NHS must reform its culture, not just reorganise its structure
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Hunt's hospital rating system threatens transparency
Why a ‘single version of the truth’ won’t work