All Labour policy articles – Page 8
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CommentLib Dems join the pre-election bidding war but will voters listen?
Both major parties’ pledges are implausible
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CommentLocal issues need local solutions, not another top-down restructure
Clinical commissioning is key
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NewsBurnham: 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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NewsEXCLUSIVE: 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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NewsBurnham 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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NewsLabour '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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CommentThere are tough political choices behind Miliband's £2.5bn
Funding for the NHS is a political decision
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NewsMiliband 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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CommentWill Miliband's 'save the NHS' rhetoric match Labour's modest tax proposals?
Voters care about remedies
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NewsBurnham: 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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CommentElection 2015: Last chance for Ed to show his NHS credentials
Why Miliband must lead the charge on the NHS
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CommentDe-industrialised Britain is the biggest loser of open trade
Debate over the US/EU partnership
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NewsStevens to Burnham: 2006 law ‘prevents NHS tendering ban’
Exclusive: NHS England told the shadow health secretary it could not impose his proposed moratorium on letting health service contracts because of European procurement rules dating back to 2006
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NewsBurnham pledges no more 'rabbit from the hat' NHS policy shifts
Politicians should never again surprise the public with election time policy shifts on the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said
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NewsMPs back legal move to enable 'super CCGs'
MPs have approved a motion to give clinical commissioning groups greater flexibility and control in the way that they work to commission healthcare services for their communities.
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NewsExclusive: Health leaders demand politicians set out clear NHS mandate
A broad coalition of health and social care leaders will tomorrow call on all political parties to make a manifesto commitment of at least £4bn to fund NHS service changes over the next parliament, HSJ has been told.
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LeaderTensions grow as NHS reaches make or break month for waits
More time must be spent on primary care
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CommentIt's time we did the right thing by the children of Rotherham
The response has been unbearably slow
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NewsLabour health expert calls for immediate debate on health and care funding
The expert who authored Ed Miliband’s health and social care plan has called on politicians to immediately begin a public debate on the future of funding for the services.
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NewsNHS will not be excluded from US trade deal
A controversial proposed trade treaty between Europe and the US will not negatively impact the NHS or give US health companies new ways of legally challenging health service procurement processes, a government minister has insisted.