All Labour policy articles – Page 7
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Leader
Burnham fills in the blanks on 'reform without reorganisation'
Labour shadow outlines plans in an exclusive interview
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Comment
No party should feel comfortable with their NHS position yet
None of the parties have had a decisive breakthrough
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News
Labour 'still plans Health Act repeal'
Labour still intends to repeal the Health Act 2012 despite the shift in focus away from competition in the NHS Five Year Forward View, a shadow health minister has told HSJ.
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Comment
We can be cautiously hopeful about NHS's forward view
Focus must remain on patient centred care
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News
Burnham: 'I hear the call' for more cash
the shadow health secretary has admitted that Labour has not yet solved the issue of health service funding, after NHS England challenged the next government to commit to year on year real terms annual funding growth of more than 1.5 per cent
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News
Labour seeks to mollify reorganisation fears
Labour has sought to reassure clinical commissioning groups that its health reforms would not amount to a top-down ‘big bang’ shake up of the NHS.
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Comment
The NHS's fight to survive will be won with equality, efficiency and quality
Labour’s NHS vision
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Leader
Weak spending pledges mean more rationing and tighter control
The debate about NHS finances is changing
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Comment
Lib Dems join the pre-election bidding war but will voters listen?
Both major parties’ pledges are implausible
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Comment
Local issues need local solutions, not another top-down restructure
Clinical commissioning is key
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News
Burnham: I will ‘not mandate’ structural change
EXCLUSIVE: A Labour government would ‘not mandate’ organisational change to drive through its plans for a fully integrated national health and care service, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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News
EXCLUSIVE: Burnham outlines new role for Monitor
A Labour government could put Monitor in charge of overseeing the financial sustainability of whole health economies, Andy Burnham has told HSJ
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News
Burnham wants ‘every hospital to be an integrated care organisation’
Andy Burnham will announce that every hospital would need to become an integrated care organisation if Labour were in government during his address to the party conference tomorrow.
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News
Labour 'needs to address funding to universities' to meet workforce pledge
Labour would have to address a shortage of funding to universities if it were to deliver on its pledge for 36,000 extra NHS staff if it formed a government, HSJ has been told
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Comment
There are tough political choices behind Miliband's £2.5bn
Funding for the NHS is a political decision
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News
Miliband announces £2.5bn NHS 'time to care fund'
Labour party leader Ed Miliband today announced it would introduce a “£2.5bn NHS Time to Care Fund”, increasing health service funding at a greater rate than at present, if he formed a government next year.
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Comment
Will Miliband's 'save the NHS' rhetoric match Labour's modest tax proposals?
Voters care about remedies
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News
Burnham: Change will be 10 year journey not a ‘big bang’
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has today unveiled further details of his 10 year plan to merge health and social care
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Comment
Election 2015: Last chance for Ed to show his NHS credentials
Why Miliband must lead the charge on the NHS
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Comment
De-industrialised Britain is the biggest loser of open trade
Debate over the US/EU partnership