All News articles – Page 634
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Lamb warns against referrals for ‘gay conversion’ therapy
Health minister Norman Lamb has written to NHS England calling for reassurances that GPs are not referring gay and lesbian people to controversial practitioners who say they can “cure” people of homosexuality.
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Ombudsman: Older patients could be 'suffering in silence'
Older people could be suffering in silence because they are less likely to complain when standards slip, even though they use the NHS the most, Health Service Ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor has said.
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NHS England director returns as Choices chief
A senior NHS England director and former director at outsourcing giant Capita has been made senior responsible officer for the NHS Choices programme.
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NHS England planning new choice and competition research
NHS England is planning to conduct new research on choice and competition in the NHS, according to the organisation’s latest business plan.
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HSJ Live 07.04.2014: Robert Harris to step down as NHS England director of strategy
Robert Harris has announced he is to step down from the national position, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Working time rules 'hit treatment'
Rules aimed at ensuring doctors do not work long hours are leading to cancelled operations and clinics for patients, a government-ordered review has found.
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Commissioning end of life care: keeping terminally ill people out of hospital
An HSJ Twitter chat in association with Marie Curie Cancer Care
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Marsden and Brompton in royal rumble over land sale
Two of London’s most famous teaching hospitals are locked in dispute over the sale of land in central London.
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Commissioning services through any qualified provider: an HSJ survey
Should any qualified provider be extended to new areas?
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HSJ Live 04.04.2014: CCG leaders voice serious concern over public health
HSJ clinical commissioning barometer survey finds CCG leaders concerned about public health services, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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CCGs open services to competition out of fear of rules
More than a quarter of clinical commissioning leaders open services up to competition out of fear of rules
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CCG leaders voice serious concern over public health
Clinical commissioning leaders have expressed serious concerns about the current state public health services.
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CCG leaders: Reforms have not improved control of cost and activity
The ability of the NHS to control costs and curb hospital activity has not improved with the government’s reorganisation of the NHS, according to many leaders of the clinical commissioning groups created by the reforms.
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Unison seeks ballot for NHS industrial action
The largest healthcare union has warned of a “winter of unrest for the NHS” as it revealed plans to ballot members for industrial action.
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Third of NHS data releases went to private sector, audit says
Just over a third of the organisations which received approved patient data releases from the NHS between April and December last year were private firms, an audit published today said.
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Data video: What happened to the continuing healthcare cash?
Paying for legacy healthcare claims
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Commission moots payment for NHS care
Panel led by senior economist aims to challenge distinction between NHS and social care funding
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Information Centre urged DH to intervene in Care.data last year
The Health and Social Care Information Centre urged the Department of Health in December to intervene in NHS England plans to publicise the controversial Care.data project, HSJ has learned.
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Bar on multiple directorships dropped to aid trust takeovers
The Department of Health plans to change the law to allow chairs of NHS trusts to serve on the boards of more than one organisation, in a move it says could smooth the takeover process for unsustainable providers.
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BMI spared from hospitals sell-off
Britain’s biggest private healthcare provider has been spared from having to sell off seven hospitals after the new competition watchdog heavily watered down plans to shake up the sector.