All News articles – Page 597
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NewsExecutive Summary: Will the chancellor front up to Stevens?
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential health policy stories
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NewsExclusive: Stevens issues warning over government's NHS funding deal
Simon Stevens has issued a dramatic warning that the government’s spending review may not deliver a ‘workable’ funding settlement for the NHS.
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NewsAnalysis: Frontloaded funding deal would give the NHS a shot at success
Simon Stevens, one of the most influential individuals in Whitehall, has issued a warning over the NHS spending settlement for the next two years. Dave West says front-loading funding in the next two years would give the NHS a shot at success.
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NewsVideo: Health secretary announces Ofsted style ratings for CCGs
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt announces NHS England will now deliver aggregated Ofsted style ratings to tackle what he dubbed the “transparency gap”.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Burt and earnings
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s must read stories in healthcare
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NewsVideo: Jeremy Hunt on NHS 'elephant traps'
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt explains why the digitising of medical records will only bring positive change if the NHS can avoid the elephant traps of increased bureaucracy, blurred accountability, financial waste and insecure data.
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NewsRevealed: Second commissioning support tender winner
The second tender for commissioning support services awarded via NHS England’s procurement framework has gone to Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit.
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NewsExclusive: DH gears up for further raid on capital budgets
The Department of Health has asked regulators to quantify the amount of NHS provider capital expenditure that could be delayed until 2016-17, as central bodies struggle to bring down the huge deficit expected in the provider sector this year.
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NewsBetter care fund gets third director in 12 months
The better care fund has appointed its third director in a year.
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NewsBurt: Plans in place for care provider collapse
The care minister has told HSJ he is confident there are ‘adequate plans’ in place for the possibility of a major provider of social care collapsing.
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NewsExclusive: 'More control' will drive GPs to new contract, says minister
The main incentive for GPs to switch to the government’s proposed new ‘voluntary contract’ will be to gain more control over their work and more time to see patients, health minister Alistair Burt has told HSJ.
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NewsExecutive Summary: Bennett sets off fireworks
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s essential health policy news and talking points
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NewsAnalysis: NHS’s digital plans won’t fly without funding boost and cultural shift
Why ‘digital footprint’ groups must have upfront cash and a cultural change if they are to succeed
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Lord Carter calls for greater staff data reporting
Lord Carter is to recommend that hospital trusts submit more of their staffing data to national bodies.
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NewsClinicians guilty of manslaughter after Leicester child death
A doctor and a nurse have been convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence of a child at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
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NewsIn-year public health cut confirmed
The Department of Health is to press ahead with its planned blanket in-year cut to public health budgets, despite the majority of local authorities backing alternative options.
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NewsMonitor chief warns: Providers can’t bear more than 2pc savings
David Bennett has warned that NHS providers have little scope to get their deficit below £2bn in 2015-16, and that national bodies must ensure tariff prices for next year impose a savings requirement of no more than 2 per cent.
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NewsBennett: Government 'micromanagement' creating 'dependency mindset' among leaders
The outgoing chief executive of regulator Monitor has accused the government of attempting to ‘micromanage’ NHS organisations in a way that damages motivation and creates a ‘dependency mindset’ among leaders.
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NewsBennett calls for freeze of foundation trust pipeline
The outgoing chief executive of the foundation trust regulator has called for a suspension of the FT pipeline.
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NewsExecutive Summary: The government goes on counter-strike
HSJ’s roundup of the day’s must read stories