All Labour articles – Page 9
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Absolutely nobody has a plan (Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring!)
Andy Cowper opines that currently no one has a plan for the NHS and even though it is scary it is OK
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Politics, game theory and Belgian lessons
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the ups and downs of British politics, which influences the funding available to the NHS
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NewsFinancially struggling trusts pay £183m in 'pointless' interest charges
Financially troubled NHS trusts have paid interest charges of more than £180m on their short term cash bailouts from the Department of Health and Social Care in the last three financial years.
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NewsExclusive: Thousands of NHS staff to transfer to subsidiary companies
The employment contracts of thousands of non-clinical NHS staff could be transferred to subsidiary companies under plans being drawn up by 16 hospital trusts.
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HSJ LocalFormer health minister to chair STP
A former Department of Health and Social Care minister has been appointed as chair of a sustainability and transformation partnership.
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NewsMinisters seek to end 'revolving door' for failed NHS managers
Ministers have said they will tackle the “revolving door culture” in NHS management in some areas – and seek to “clarify” whether regulators facilitated roles for former board members at a scandal hit trust.
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NewsLabour 'entirely sceptical' about cross-party talks on NHS funding
Labour will not back calls for a cross-party review of long term funding for the NHS, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said.
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HSJ LocalMPs criticise 'extraordinary' absence of ambulance trust bosses
MPs have called for an “urgent explanation” as to why the chief executive and other senior board members of a crisis hit ambulance trust went on holiday during what was long predicted would be “a really difficult period”.
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CommentPrivate investment can transform primary care estate
Private finance as an option to fund an upgrade of primary care estate can deliver value for money for the taxpayer and significantly improve patient outcomes, writes Maisie Borrows
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CommentTime to talk about referral to treatment waiting times
Referral to treatment waiting times were a tremendous success, but their future is now in doubt. Rob Findlay notes that the time has come to ask: is there a better alternative?
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NewsNew non-executives join CQC board
Three new non-executive board members have been appointed to the Care Quality Commission.
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Anti-ACO activists' common ground with government
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsStevens and Hunt in a Mexican standoff at the top of this year’s HSJ100
Little has changed, yet much has changed. The same five individuals occupy the top spots in the 2017 HSJ100 as did in the refreshed rankings produced after this summer’s general election, but their interactions will be very different. By Alastair McLellan
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NewsGovernment ditches cap on social care costs
A plan to introduce a cap on social care costs by the end of the decade has been dropped, the care minister has announced.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A Budget for putting politics above prosperity
We’re approaching a moment when a government that has been warned that the NHS funding situation will threaten quality, access and safety is going to choose to ignore that warning, says Andy Cowper in the runup to the Budget
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NewsTrust subsidiary companies are not 'VAT scam', minister says
Hospital trusts have set up 39 wholly owned subsidiary companies to run parts of their estate and back office functions.
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CommentDo not overlook the real achievements of PFI
Paul Ridout on the role of PFI in the improvement of NHS facilities
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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NewsBurnham: Reconfiguration took focus 'away from where it should have been'
Andy Burnham says health leaders in Greater Manchester should reflect on the much heralded reconfiguration of hospital services in the region, saying it “took time, energy and focus away from where it should have been”.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Why the MBA method to NHS reform may fail
Andy Cowper on how management by admonishment is not a good idea in the case of the NHS