All Jeremy Hunt articles – Page 60
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CommentHow 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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NewsHealth 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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CommentTime for the NHS to import innovation
The NHS must reform its culture, not just reorganise its structure
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CommentHunt's hospital rating system threatens transparency
Why a ‘single version of the truth’ won’t work
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CommentThe NHS needs calm heads, not panic headlines
Alarmists say the NHS is a service sliding into chaos
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NewsExclusive: 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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NewsNHS 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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NewsDuty 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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NewsScheme 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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NewsFrancis 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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NewsFrancis 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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NewsTelehealth ‘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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CommentOfsted-style ratings can only work with conditions
Hospitals are too complex for a simple ratings system
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NewsBan 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 KnowledgeWhy a paperless NHS will be great for patients
The digital revolution will be a high-impact policy driver
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NewsGovernment 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.