All Local government articles – Page 64
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Comment
The public health white paper: sizing up reactions
HSJ’s sister title Local Government Chronicle gathers reaction to last week’s public health white paper, Healthy Lives, Healthy People.
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News
MP questions strategic health planning base
It remains unclear who would be responsible for vital strategic health planning during the transition to commissioning consortia and beyond, a shadow health minister has warned.
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Comment
'Don't allow healthcare and public health improvement to be divided'
The raison d’être of local government is that elected councillors best represent residents’ concerns.
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Leader
White paper let down by speedy schedule
The public health white paper is something of a an anticlimax. Government plans for improving the country’s wellbeing may well prove to be significant, but we will have to wait until well into 2011 to find out.
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News
Lack of clarity on GP role in public health
The public white paper lacks clarity on several crucial issues, both the NHS Confederation and the BMA have said.
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News
Public health faculty in resource warning
New public health services must be properly resourced and staffed if the white paper is to achieve its aims, a leading expert has said.
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News
Few surprises in public health white paper
Andrew Lansley has unveiled the public health white paper saying it goes further and faster in tackling causes of premature death and illness and reducing health inequalities.
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News
Britnell warns on NHS efficiency
Changes in the economic mix will result in less room for manoeuvre in the NHS, according to KPMG global head of health Mark Britnell.
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News
BMA warns managers not to instruct consortia
British Medical Association GPs committee chair Laurence Buckman has attacked primary care trusts and strategic health authorities for attempting to control the creation of fledgling GP consortia.
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News
Public health body fears PCTs are ‘asset stripping’
More than a quarter of London primary care trusts have no public health director and 13 per cent of PCTs in England have also failed to fill the key post.
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News
DH claims retaining top managers is a priority
Retaining talented primary care trust and strategic health authority mangers in the system is a “top priority”, the Department of Health’s new permanent secretary has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Public engagement: power to the people
Turning Point Connected Care is developing citizen advisers, a local role to help people interact successfully with public services, says Richard Kramer
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Comment
The national public health service
What will the new national public health service look like?
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News
Pledge for democratic input on commissioning 'watered down'
Health minster Earl Howe has revealed the government’s proposed health and wellbeing boards will not be compulsory.
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News
Patients Association rubbishes local invovement networks
The Patients Association has criticised the current patient involvement system and expressed doubt about white paper plans to reform it.
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News
Most councils 'expect social care service cuts'
More than half of local authorities in England fear budget pressures will affect care services that help elderly people and adults with disabilities to live at home, according to a new survey.
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News
Lansley details social care funding plans
The NHS will be forced to give councils the majority of the £1bn additional annual funding it was directed to spend on social care in the spending review, health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed.
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News
Councils and NHS 'must cooperate on social care'
The health service and local government must work as partners on social care in the face of a spending squeeze, the NHS Confederation has said.
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Comment
Independent contractors and the NHS
Are independent contractors really part of the NHS? The answer, traditionally, has been “yes, when convenient; no, when not”.