All Policy articles – Page 156
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NewsPatients should be told the cost of their treatment, says Tory MP
The chair of the Commons public administration committee has called for GPs to be more open with patients about treatment costs instead of worrying about “polluting the clinical environment” with financial issues.
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NewsPhysiotherapists warn white paper will fragment services
Department of Health plans for the NHS put separate government proposals to enable benefit claimants to return to work at “severe risk”, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
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NewsNew DH permanent secretary announced
Una O’Brien has been announced as the new permanent secretary at the DH.
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NewsAndy Burnham's letter to Andrew Lansley
“Taken together, the proposed reforms risk undermining the stability and long-term future of the NHS.”
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NewsLost hospital data draws security sanction
A Scottish health board has been rapped by data protection chiefs after a memory stick containing “sensitive” information about patients and staff was found outside a supermarket.
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NewsGovernment urged to plan for ageing population
A charity has urged the government to plan for the “significant challenges” of funding an ageing population as new figures showed more people than ever are celebrating their 100th birthday.
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NewsBurnham tells Lansley to back down on health reforms
The government should back down on its white paper reforms in response to “fierce criticism” from professional bodies, the shadow health secretary has said.
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NewsEd Miliband signals tax rises to protect services
New Labour leader Ed Miliband has given his strongest signal yet that he would put up taxes in order to protect public services from spending cuts.
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CommentEarly cancer diagnosis could save lives
There is great potential for GPs to improve detection of cancers
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NewsTrusts to be tested on dementia care standards
NHS organisations will have to publish details about the care they provide for people with dementia to improve local accountability, the government has announced.
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NewsTrust apologises after delivery errors leave baby brain damaged
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has apologised to a family after a baby was left blind in one eye and brain-damaged when hospital medical staff made a catalogue of errors during a routine birth.
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NewsLansley seeks to reassure GPs on commissioning
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has written to all GPs in England in an apparent bid to allay concerns about their future role in commissioning
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NewsAndy Burnham accuses Cameron of NHS u-turn
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham accused prime minister David Cameron of a u-turn on NHS policy in his speech to the Labour party conference today.
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NewsMS doctor 'should be struck off' - GMC
A doctor who gave multiple sclerosis patients “pointless” injections of a substance containing stem cells should be struck off, a fitness to practise hearing has been told.
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HSJ KnowledgeGP commissioning: assembling the kit for consortia
GPs will have to acquire new complex skills and concepts to be equipped to take over commissioning, says Lubna Haq
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NewsLabour in the Health Hotel
The opposition gets a chance to hit back at health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans for the NHS next week at the Labour Party conference in Manchester.
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CommentPublic health needs a long vigil
Public health must be protected from short term raids on its funding by acute services
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Comment'A centre-left party in a centre-right coalition needs to tread carefully'
It has been a fascinating week in Liverpool watching Liberal Democrat ministers, MPs and party activists circling each other at their first party conference since entering the Cameron-led coalition.
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NewsCriticism launched at ‘armchair audit’ idea
Concerns have been raised about the abolition of the Audit Commission by the chair of the government’s independent ethics advisory body, the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
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NewsScots twice as likely to die from alcohol
Scottish people are more than twice as likely to die as a result of alcohol than those born in England and Wales who live north in Scotland, new research suggests.