All Policy articles – Page 167
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NewsNHS staff vetting plans to be scaled back
Home secretary, Theresa May, has promised to scale back “draconian” plans for vetting people working with children and vulnerable adults to bring in more “common sense”.
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NewsRevised operating framework to pave way for abolition of waiting targets
A revised NHS operating framework due to be issued by the Department of Health next week will set out a timetable to abolish several NHS waiting time targets by 2011.
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NewsNHS budget 'should not be protected'
NHS spending should not escape the impending budget cuts that will affect the rest of the public sector, a think tank has said.
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NewsDorrell elected health committee chair
Stephen Dorrell has been elected chair of the Commons health select committee in the first ever election for the post.
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NewsA&E waiting time targets face axe
The government has pledged to scrap the four-hour waiting time target at accident and emergency departments.
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NewsPCTs to lose responsibility for GPs
Primary care trusts will have their responsibilities radically stripped back under plans being developed by health secretary Andrew Lansley.
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CommentPredictions on the new government's next moves
The future of the largest departmental budget and the second biggest area of government spending after welfare initially boiled down to just 30 words in the government’s initial coalition agreement.
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SupplementsHealthcare IT: is there a future for the NHS IT programme?
One of the most ambitious IT projects in the world, Connecting for Health has been hit by delay and criticism. Does it still have a future?
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CommentMichael White: the case for devolving power
Before we turn to the miserable stuff, here is something which may cheer you up. Naoto Kan, the new prime minister of Japan, is a former social activist who first made his name as health minister in the 1990s.
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NewsNHS arm’s length bodies in rush to cut spending
Arm’s length bodies, such as the NHS Information Centre, are reducing costs as uncertainty hangs over their future.
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NewsLansley outlines NHS plans in first public speech
Andrew Lansley has given further details of his plans for the NHS in his first major public speech as health secretary.
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NewsFormer health secretary fights nurse, dentist and FT critic to chair health committee
A former health secretary is battling a nurse, a dentist and a right-winger to become chairman of the health select committee.
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NewsHospitals to face financial penalties for readmitting patients
Hospitals will face financial penalties if patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days of being discharged, under government plans to be announced today.
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NewsPharma risk-sharing scheme a 'costly failure'
A risk-sharing agreement between the government and drug companies to supply expensive multiple sclerosis medicines was a “costly failure”, experts have claimed.
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CommentMichael White: Richard Sykes' resignation
Before last weekend’s manure hit the coalition fan I had taken the trouble to dig out the Orange Book for further scrutiny. No, not the widely consulted guide to generic drugs, but the volume of essays published by the free market wing of the Liberal Democrat party. It caused so ...
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NewsNHS reputation is on a par with Iceland chain
The English NHS has a public reputation roughly on a par with frozen food retailer Iceland or the UK media sector, according to a unique analysis exclusively obtained by HSJ.
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NewsTop board members leave NHS London
Two members of NHS London’s non-executive board, including its chair, resigned last week after health secretary Andrew Lansley’s “halt” of its capital-wide reconfiguration programme.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe medical profession and the state
Things do not happen in isolation, nor can change be arbitrary. A full and contemporary understanding of today’s culture and attitudes requires an awareness of essential history.
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NewsTranssexual loses NHS breast enlargement legal challenge
A transsexual has lost her High Court battle over the refusal to fund a breast enlargement operation on the NHS.