All Policy articles – Page 113
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Property transfer could expose NHS to hefty tax bill
The Department of Health’s decision to transfer a £3.6bn portfolio of NHS properties to a private company may have exposed the health service to a hefty VAT bill, HSJ has learned.
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CommentMichael White: social care reform is a slow crawl
The government’s plans have finally reached another milestone
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CommentForget structures, reorganise the incentives
The US provides a model for rapid service change
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NewsLabour's 'whole person care' commission seeks input from service
The independent commission created by Labour to make recommendations for delivering “whole person care” has begun an open consultation.
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NewsBaumann: NHS needs 'heroic' savings to pay for integration fund
Government plans to create a £3.8bn pooled fund for health and social care commissioning will take the level of savings needed by the health service in 2015-16 to at least 6 or 7 per cent, NHS England’s chief financial officer has warned.
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CommentWhy the NHS debate needs an independent voice
An ‘Institute for Health Studies’ could add transparency and trust to arguments
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CommentWhen is a trust failure not a failure?
The ambiguity over FTs’ insolvency has consequences for mergers
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NewsMcCarthy: Mandate update will impose 'additional burden' on NHS
Government plans to “refresh” its mandate to NHS England will impose an unfunded “additional burden” on the health service, NHS England’s policy director has warned.
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BlogsWe cannot let the NHS slip backwards
The NHS has come a long way in the last couple of decades − to keep gaining ground we need a national debate on the kind of NHS we want to see
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NewsReconfiguration rules held up three months after system reformed
The government has refused to publish guidance which has been prepared on how service reconfiguration could be planned in the new NHS system, more than three months after the reforms took effect.
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Comment'I'm not in favour of any radical new departures'
Stephen Dorrell assesses the NHS on its 65th anniversary
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NewsExclusive: NHS England and CCG managers dodge fit and proper person test
Plans for a fit and proper person test for senior NHS managers will not apply to NHS England or clinical commissioning group staff, HSJ has been told.
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Growth of payment by results 'unsustainable', says Monitor director
The past decade’s rapid expansion in the number of nationally set “payment by results” prices for NHS services is unsustainable - and “may already have gone too far”, Monitor’s pricing director has told HSJ.
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NewsAnalysed: The reform of payment by results
In the HSJ Briefing week we examine the proposals for changing NHS payment systems.
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CommentMichael White: an end to health tourism?
The government is making hay from plans to charge foreign NHS visitors
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NewsMPs attack 'missed opportunity' of consultants contract
NHS hospital consultants are being poorly managed and their 2003 contract was a “missed opportunity” which delivered poor value for money, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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NewsHunt 'prepared to look at' future of foundation trust policy
Health secretary speaks exclusively to HSJ on private healthcare, the purchaser-provider split, and the “bold” reforms to healthcare models needed on the 65th anniversary of the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt says 'concept' of NHS 111 must be re-examined
The government is reviewing the “concept” of the controversial NHS 111 service, just months after the chaotic official launch of the new system, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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NewsNHS England mulls open source patient record systems
NHS England is considering offering cash to trusts to develop “open source” software which it says offers flexibility and speeds up their development of electronic patient record systems.
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NewsHunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16