All Labour articles – Page 32
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CommentMichael White: the Queen's Speech
For a seven minute royal speech which was criticised for not once mentioning what David Cameron called “the three letters that should be in any Queen’s Speech” - NHS - it was quite a boisterous occasion for health and social services. So let us start on a positive party political ...
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NewsDH and unions thrash out deal on transfer of NHS staff pensions
The Department of Health and unions are close to a deal on allowing NHS employees who transfer to the private sector to keep their NHS pension, HSJ has been told.
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NewsConservative win could kill local NHS shake-up plans
The Conservatives have pledged to scrap current government proposals for reconfiguration in major services if they are voted into power. What could this mean for the many local changes already being deliberated? Alison Moore reports
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CommentLiz Kendall on urgent care efficiency
More hospital admissions could be avoided if people needing emergency and urgent care were managed differently rather than just being taken to A&E
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CommentMichael White: FT freedoms and the election
Barely a couple of days pass without some potentially significant policy shift on the health and social care front from the political parties.
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NewsManagers’ anger at O'Brien's name and shame threat
Managers have reacted with anger and confusion to a threat by health minister Mike O’Brien to “name and shame” those who slash budgets and services in response to the public sector funding squeeze.
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NewsAndrew Lansley warns against ‘chilling’ preferred provider policy
A Conservative government would return to an “any willing provider” model, the shadow health secretary has said.
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CommentMichael White on health debates
Handy Andy Burnham, our youthful health secretary and Clark Kent lookalike, slipped out of Britain on Tuesday, heading west towards Washington - safely out of the row over home secretary Alan Johnson’s rash dismissal of David Nutt.
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NewsTories need clear vision and a stronger message on health
The Conservatives have pronounced themselves the party of reform but are too wedded to the status quo. Andrew Haldenby argues they need to spend more energy advocating change
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CommentAndy McKeon on NHS efficiency and pre-election sparring
The pre-election sparring has begun and the NHS will not escape some cuts. How tough things get will be a true test of how well money has been spent recently
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NewsHealth check shows NHS is not focusing on quality - Andrew Lansley
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the annual health check showed there was not enough focus on improving quality in the NHS.
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CommentMichael White on Tory worries
I was slightly surprised this week to find myself trudging into expenses-gripped Westminster for the last parliamentary session before the election more troubled by the prospect of a new Conservative government than I was a week ago.
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Mental health FTs allowed to treat private patients, but rules face fundamental review
The government is to launch a rapid review of the foundation trust private patient income cap in the face of a judicial review of the policy by the trade union Unison.
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CommentMedia Watch: party conference season
Unsurprisingly with the party conference season in full swing, there is plenty of NHS politics in the papers this week.
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CommentMichael White on the Conservative conference
Even before I set out for the Conservative conference, a neighbour asked me how David Cameron plans to fund residential end of life care for a flat-rate insurance contribution of £8,000.
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CommentAndrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform
Competition, choice and clinician power: the shadow health secretary lists the ingredients that he would use to make NHS outcomes the best in the world
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NewsElderly care is set to be election battleground
The government and the Conservatives have offered the electorate competing schemes to care for elderly people.
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NewsFoundation trust de-authorisation rules 'window dressing'
A new regime for stripping failing NHS foundation trusts of their freedoms has been dismissed as “window dressing”.
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LeaderSHAs face an uncertain destiny as political friends desert them
Are strategic health authorities staring into the abyss?
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NewsCan the Conservatives mix cutting and caring?
Editor Richard Vize discusses whether the health policies of a Conservative government would deliver the right improvements for the NHS long after the applause of the voters has faded away