All Policy articles – Page 112
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NewsCommunity services to be focus of extended competition
Community services worth billions of pounds are likely to be made subject to increased competition by guidance to be developed under controversial new secondary legislation, HSJ has learned.
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Further curbs on foreign NHS use likely
The government will take action to further restrict access to free NHS care for foreign patients, Jeremy Hunt has indicated.
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NewsExclusive: Howe insists competition regulations protect commissioners
Health minister Earl Howe has insisted government assurances given during the passage of the Health Act on competition rules remain intact, after new regulations sparked accusations of backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
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NewsMinister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
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NewsGovernment tendering rules will lead to big shake-up in services, lawyers warn
Lawyers have warned that new procurement rules due to come into force in April could see significant changes in the provision of NHS services.
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CommentCompetition authorities take their positions
The CCP and OFT could have a major influence on NHS mergers
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CommentWe should all join Burnham's debate on integrated care
Key decisions on fusing health and social care cannot wait
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NewsDH releases Health Act competition rules
The government has published details of how competition and procurement rules will operate under the Health Bill.
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NewsHunt warns against 'defensive culture' in letter to NHS
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to trusts warning them against having a “defensive culture” over patient safety and whistleblowing.
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NewsDame Ruth Carnall tells London chief execs gagging clauses 'unacceptable'
The head of NHS London, England’s largest strategic health authority, has said she will write to all chief executives in the capital to remind them gagging clauses in severance deals are “unacceptable”.
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NewsInterest in franchise model has 'waned dramatically'
Government interest in the hospital franchise model has ‘waned dramatically’, an HSJ analysis has found, a year after Circle Health took over the running of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust.
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NewsPeer to review end-of-life regime
Family members who have witnessed loved ones undergo a controversial end-of-life regime, which can involve withholding food and drink from terminally ill patients, are being asked to share their experiences with health officials.
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NewsAnalysis: Francis calls for deceleration of drive towards all-FT NHS
Robert Francis QC has called for a further deceleration of the drive for all NHS providers to become foundation trusts, in order to ensure trusts completing the process are safe.
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NewsLabour MP calls for moratorium on A&E closures
A Labour MP has called on ministers to impose a moratorium on closures of hospital emergency departments until the NHS Commissioning Board’s national review on the subject has been carried out.
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CommentReal policy dilemma is about spending, not saving
The future debate will be between more tax or more private healthcare
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NewsCameron: Failure regime will be for poor care, not just poor finances
David Cameron today said the government would extend the NHS “failure regime” to allow trust boards to be suspended for failures of care, as well as financial management failures.
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Government backs down from plan to abolish specialist regulators
The government has backed down from plans to abolish two specialist regulators and transfer the majority of their responsibilities to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsSelbie: 'The NHS is not the same as health'
The chief executive of Public Health England has urged a fundamental rethink of how illness and wellbeing are perceived, stating: “The NHS is not the same as health.”
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HSJ LocalLewisham consultants ask Keogh for evidence over 'lives saved' claim
STRUCTURE: Senior clinicians from Lewisham Hospital have written to NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh to ask him to explain a statistic which Jeremy Hunt attributed to him about mortality at A&E departments.
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NewsJoin tech revolution or face 'serious repercussions', hospitals told
Hospitals face “very serious repercussions” if they do not have electronic patient records systems in place by 2014-15, the NHS Commissioning Board’s national director for patients and information warned last night.