All Labour articles – Page 16
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LeaderBurnham fills in the blanks on 'reform without reorganisation'
Labour shadow outlines plans in an exclusive interview
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News'There's no getting away from difficult choices over staff pay,' says Burnham
A Labour government would use pay restraint and make ‘difficult choices’ about the wages of NHS frontline staff if the party wins the election next year
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CommentNo party should feel comfortable with their NHS position yet
None of the parties have had a decisive breakthrough
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NewsLabour '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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NewsBurnham: '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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NewsExclusive: Deputy prime minister puts faith in winter funding
Nick Clegg is pushing for next year’s NHS budget to be topped up with enough winter pressures funding to leave the service in a ‘healthy state’ for the next government
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NewsLabour 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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CommentThe NHS's fight to survive will be won with equality, efficiency and quality
Labour’s NHS vision
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NewsHunt commissions independent study into GP capacity
The health secretary has commissioned Health Education England to conduct an area by area examination of general practice capacity
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CommentIrrational UKIP appeal puts pressure on the mainstream parties' NHS pledges
Voters are wary of the various NHS pledges
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LeaderBrutal efficiency will be the next government’s defining challenge
The financial cushion has been taken away
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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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NewsFinance experts: Labour £2.5bn pledge 'not enough' for long term
A Labour proposal for a funding increase for the NHS has been welcomed by health economists – but met immediate calls for a longer term financial settlement to secure and transform the service.
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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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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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LeaderThe results of English devolution could be profound for the NHS
It is unclear how but the impact will be huge