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News
Two experts join DHSC to lead 10-year reform plan
Two health policy experts are joining government to help draw up a 10-year plan for health.
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News
Government must ‘direct officials’ to prioritise prevention, says ex-minister
Ministers must be “a lot stronger in directing officials” to prioritise prevention in health spending, a former Conservative health minister has said.
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News
Labour U-turns on pension tax after ‘NHS exodus’ threat
Labour has U-turned on plans to reintroduce the pensions lifetime allowance, which the British Medical Association said would have triggered an “exodus” of senior clinicians.
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Comment
Crack teams to get spin backlog under control
As election fever intensifies, the Labour leadership has set out a clear and detailed plan to save the NHS, writes Julian Patterson
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News
FTs and ICBs want me to abolish each other, says Streeting
Wes Streeting would seek to resolve the “tension” between foundation trusts and integrated care boards if he becomes health and social care secretary, he has said.
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Comment
Labour need to think big on primary and community care
Blair and Brown missed the opportunity to think big despite winning a mandate for change. Nearly 30 years on, healthcare can’t afford history to repeat itself, writes Adam Sampson, chief executive of the Association of Optometrists
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Comment
A Labour government will need unpopular solutions
The solutions an incoming Labour government would need to bring to bear on the NHS would be challenging, counterintuitive, and often unpopular, say Richard Bourne and Professor Steve Iliffe.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: What the DHSC restructure means
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Revamping ICB ratings
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: HSJ’s predictions for 2024
In our final episode of the year, we make our predictions for what 2024 could hold for the NHS, including the first integrated care system merger, how the strikes will pan out and manager regulation.
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News
Labour would delay and review capital projects, says Starmer
More capital delays to key NHS projects could be on the horizon under a Labour government, it has emerged, as Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his plan for the health service.
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News
Labour pledges to cut heart and stroke deaths by a quarter
The first target of Labour’s promised 10-year plan for the NHS will be unveiled today by leader Sir Keir Starmer.
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News
Streeting ‘would not look over NHS England chief’s shoulder’
Wes Streeting has said he would ‘not look over NHS England’s shoulder’ if he became health and social care secretary, calling for ‘clarity’ and a ‘healthier relationship’ between the government and NHSE.
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News
Big expansion of nurse and doctor training planned by Labour
Labour would use revenue from reversal of the abolition of the 45 per cent rate of income tax to fund “one of the largest NHS workforce expansions in history,” the shadow chancellor has announced.
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News
Labour would ‘pool’ health and social care budgets
Health and social care budgets would be pooled together under a Labour government in a bid to boost NHS integration, the shadow health secretary has said.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: New health bill ‘more combustible’ than Lansley’s
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by senior correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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Comment
Letter from Scotland: A more generous social care system
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses the obstacles to the pledge of making social care free at the point of use in Scotland
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: The two NHS cultures
The scientist and novelist C P Snow’s famous 1959 lecture and book describes The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities as having become polarised.
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