All Norman Lamb articles – Page 4
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NewsLamb proposes new laws to empower health and wellbeing boards
New laws should be introduced in the next parliament to give health and wellbeing boards extra powers including the ability to independently hold budgets, Norman Lamb has told HSJ.
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NewsMPs back legal move to enable 'super CCGs'
MPs have approved a motion to give clinical commissioning groups greater flexibility and control in the way that they work to commission healthcare services for their communities.
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NewsMutuals ‘central’ to solving NHS challenges, say ministers
Mutual models of ownership in the provision of NHS services will play a ‘central’ role in overcoming the challenges facing the health service, ministers have said.
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NewsLamb: Children's mental services 'stuck in the dark ages'
Care minister Norman Lamb said services available to young people are ‘not fit for purpose’
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NewsDuty of candour extended to cover wider set of incidents
A statutory duty of candour in the NHS will cover a wider set of incidents than previously expected, and will force NHS trusts to apologise to affected patients, it has emerged.
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NewsLamb condemns 'shunting' of mentally ill children
A health minister has accused NHS organisations of “shunting” mentally ill children into specialist inpatient care for financial reasons.
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NewsExclusive: Major hospital trust 'very interested' in becoming a social enterprise
One of the largest hospital trusts in the country has revealed to HSJ it is “very interested” in exploring becoming a staff owned social enterprise.
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NewsHospital trusts should be free to become mutuals, DH advised
Acute trusts should be free to become staff-led mutual social enterprises in an effort to improve staff engagement, a Department of Health commissioned report recommends.
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CommentMichael White: A bad week to feel sorry for MPs
Lamb and Ellison were both secretly recorded
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NewsStevens putting 'rigour' into care fund approval process, minister says
Simon Stevens is ‘insisting on real rigour in the process’ of approving better care fund plans, care services minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsSingle online tool launched to aid mental health data models
Efforts to develop more sophisticated approaches to commissioning, funding and comparing mental health services could be helped by a new online database.
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NewsPolitical consensus grows on merging health and social care budgets
A political consensus is emerging in support of pooling all NHS and social care funding, with the idea now openly backed by both the shadow health secretary and his Liberal Democrat counterpart.
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NewsWilful neglect offence to become law by 2015
Wilful neglect could become a criminal offence next year after the government last night tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.
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NewsFour things we learnt at Confed
The main themes that emerged from the NHS Confederation annual conference
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NewsLamb backs legal requirement to pool budgets
Care minister Norman Lamb has today called for a new “legal obligation” to ensure health and social care commissioners pool their budgets as part of a significant expansion of his better care fund project.
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NewsNHS's 'ridiculous' £1bn savings demand sparks care fund worry
The NHS will expect health and wellbeing boards to prove they can save £1bn by joining up health and social care services next year – £300m more than anticipated
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NewsMental health wait standards 'must happen next year', says minister
The introduction of waiting time standards for mental healthcare “must happen from next year”, the care services minister has told HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: The 'British Dream' has a bearing on our NHS
The NHS is screwing money out of others
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NewsEquality for mental health urged
People with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities are dying earlier as a result of a failure to address their needs by the NHS, the doctors’ union has warned.
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NewsLamb 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.