All Labour articles – Page 2
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CommentLabour’s inheritance on RTT waiting times
At the end of the last government, waiting times were bad but no longer getting worse.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Walking into a GP trap
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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CommentHow Labour can end the eye care crisis
Professor Ben Burton outlines the steps that the new Labour government can take to address the challenges in ophthalmology.
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News‘Business as usual’ declared for new hospital programme despite ministerial review
The New Hospital Programme is in “business as usual” mode and most of its projects will not face further delays, a source close to the programme has insisted, despite a government review announced today.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Will ministers rob primary care to pay primary care?
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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NewsStarmer appoints close aide as health adviser
The prime minister has appointed a close lieutenant as his senior adviser on health and social care.
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NewsNew 10-year health plan due next spring
The government is aiming to complete its 10-year plan for health services around next spring, HSJ understands.
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NewsAI could solve ‘disgraceful’ structural problems, says minister
Artificial intelligence could be used to figure out the causes of “disgraceful” structural problems like the higher rates of maternal mortality for black women, a minister told a conference yesterday.
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NewsNHS and social care ‘tripping over each other’ on staffing
The NHS should help social care recruit and retain nurses, including with better pay and conditions, particularly for new service models where care staff take on more health tasks.
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CommentWhy a focus on waiting time targets may neglect the poorest cancer patients
Naser Turabi explains how ensuring equitable access to cancer treatment is crucial.
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CommentI helped write the last Labour 10-year NHS plan. Here’s what I learned
Labour’s proposed 10-year plan for the NHS echoes similar reforms enacted two decades ago during the Milburn era. Chris Ham, who served as the Department of Health’s policy director during that time, stresses the need for sustained commitment, and an awareness of political dynamics and resource constraints
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LeaderDoctors’ pay: a warning from Labour’s past
In November 2002, HSJ sat opposite then prime minister Tony Blair in the cabinet room and asked him what he planned to do about consultants’ refusal to accept the new contract the government wanted to introduce.
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CommentWait list and wait times worsened again in May
A worsening situation in the penultimate waiting times data for the outgoing Conservative government
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Streeting’s first days
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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NewsTwo 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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CommentHow can Labour deliver on its promise of ‘change’?
Shane Carmichael explains how the new government needs to transform promises into action, by overcoming challenges to change.
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News‘The NHS is broken’ says new health and social care secretary
Wes Streeting has been named as health and social care secretary — and said talks with junior doctors will begin shortly.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Underfunded and over-reliant
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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NewsExclusive: Streeting has ‘total confidence’ in Amanda Pritchard
The shadow health and social care secretary has “total confidence” in NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard, he has told HSJ.
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NewsLabour expects trusts to pay ‘time and a half’ to staff delivering ‘40,000 extra appointments’
Trusts should pay staff around “time and a half” for the additional shifts required to hit Labour’s manifesto pledge for an extra 40,000 elective appointments a week if the party wins power, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has told HSJ.