All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 60
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Comment
The NHS needs calm heads, not panic headlines
Alarmists say the NHS is a service sliding into chaos
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News
Exclusive: Hospital leaders say 'chief inspector' role won't work
73 per cent of hospital chief executives believe the government’s proposed overhaul of regulation and inspection will be ineffective
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Blogs
Hunt, health and airlines – half right and half wrong?
We need a culture where staff feel empowered to act to mitigate risk and prevent avoidable harm without fear of recrimination and blame. It is time for a much more sophisticated debate, says Chris Hopson.
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News
NHS England pledges 'presentational consistency' with DH
The NHS Commissioning Board has said it will need to have “presentational consistency” with government policy as it adopts the name NHS England.
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News
Duty of candour could lead to criminal prosecution
Boards of organisations providing NHS care which breach the government’s proposed new statutory duty of candour could face criminal prosecution.
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News
Scheme to bar failed NHS managers will affect “miniscule numbers”
NHS managers guilty of “gross misconduct” will be prevented from moving to new jobs within the health service, the government’s response to the Francis report has proposed.
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News
Francis response: Hunt announces simple hospital rating system
The health secretary has promised the public there will be “a single version of the truth” about hospital performance
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News
Francis response: Civil servants must have 'frontline experience'
All Department of Health ministers and civil servants will in future have to have “real and extensive frontline experience of caring for patients”, according to the government response to the Francis report.
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News
Telehealth ‘not cost effective’
Telehealth, a key plank of the government’s innovation strategy is not cost effective, according to the latest official evaluation, in a government-backed study.
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Comment
Ofsted-style ratings can only work with conditions
Hospitals are too complex for a simple ratings system
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News
Ban on gagging clauses is 'smoke and mirrors'
High level announcements about restrictions on the use of confidentiality clauses have “limited significance” but may help to clarify their effect for staff, lawyers have told HSJ.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why a paperless NHS will be great for patients
The digital revolution will be a high-impact policy driver
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News
Government moves to clarify protection for whistleblowers
The government has moved to tighten up the use of so-called “gagging” clauses and pay offs to NHS employees in the wake of high profile coverage of whistleblowing cases.
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Blogs
Double fantasy
End Game has come across a rather confusing account of subversive activity on the site of Lewisham Hospital.The hospital has been the subject of intense debate this year due to plans to downgrade its facilities to help solve financial troubles at neighbouring South London Healthcare Trust.Weirdly named local paper the ...
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News
GPs could be first for Ofsted ratings
GPs could be the first healthcare providers to be subject to new Ofsted-style ratings but it could take up to five years to develop the system for hospitals, HSJ has been told.
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News
Farrar bureaucracy review: everything's in play
Plans to cut bureaucracy in the NHS by a third are “ambitious but realistic”, the man leading the government’s post-Francis paperwork review has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Largest hospital reconfiguration in England signed off by commissioners
The most significant proposed acute services reconfiguration in England has been approved by commissioners.
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News
College of Emergency Medicine raises concern over Lewisham A&E plan
The College of Emergency Medicine has raised concerns over proposals for changes to Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency unit, and indicated they do not fit its definition of an emergency department.