All Policy articles – Page 252
-
News
NHS 'split' across UK, says Confed
The NHS is providing different services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the NHS Confederation has warned.
-
News
Government ignored warnings over medical training reforms
The government sidelined two top medical advisers to rush through the doomed online recruitment system for junior doctors, MPs were told last week.
-
Comment
Operating framework's localist spin unravels
Will NHS chief executive David Nicholson be eating words as well as turkey this Christmas?
-
News
Scotland's pledge on opening hours faces GP resistance
The Scottish government has set itself on a collision course with GPs by promising extended practice opening hours as part of a package to improve access to primary care.
-
News
Move to stop NHS re-hiring sacked executives
Glowing references for sacked senior managers could be banned in a government clampdown on embarrassing pay-offs.
-
News
EU plans for health tourism
Primary care trusts may be able to save money on non-urgent procedures by encouraging patients to go abroad, under EU plans to create a Europe-wide free market in health services.
-
News
Connecting for Health will be leaderless for months
The Department of Health will not appoint a new chief for NHS Connecting for Health until spring 2008 at the earliest.
-
News
Trusts told to gather data on clinical outcomes
Trusts will be expected to collect information on the success of treatments in a move that could pave the way for more public information about individual clinicians' performance.
-
News
Operating framework reasserts DoH's central control
NHS chief executive David Nicholson's exhortation to look out to communities, not up to the DoH at Richmond House, is starting to look like lip service, given the new operating framework's raft of extended targets, writes Sally Gainsbury
-
News
NHS Shared Business Services not obligatory
NHS organisations will be given incentives but not forced to use NHS Shared Business Services for back-office administration, according to Department of Health finance deputy director Peter Coates.
-
News
DoH faces long bureaucracy battle
The Department of Health has a long way to go to meet its commitment to cut the administrative burden on regulation of NHS services by 2010, the NHS Confederation has warned.
-
HSJ Knowledge
HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash
A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize
-
News
DoH responds to social care ethics review
The Department of Health has published a response to the recommendations of the Planning Group on Ethics Review in Social Care Research.
-
News
Lib Dem leader calls for 'bonfire' of NHS targets
Newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg outlined his vision for the NHS in a recent blog entry. He said he would devolve control of the NHS to locally elected representatives and have a 'bonfire of central targets'.
-
News
EU health tourism plans delayed
A controversial European Commission directive that was set to open the way for EU patients to travel abroad for treatments at the expense of their home countries has been delayed.
-
News
3rd sector
More voluntary organisations would work alongside the NHS as 'strategic partners' under government plans to modernise the health service's investment in the third sector. The Department of Health has launched a consultation in a bid to create a fairer and more streamlined funding system.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Ken Jarrold on improving the NHS through story telling
We live in an increasingly diverse and secular society yet the Christmas story remains a powerful force presented in Nativity plays, cards, music and above-average church attendances. It is a reminder of the power of story telling.
-
News
Scotland sets out NHS workforce plan
The Scottish government has published its NHS workforce plan for 2008-09, which includes the training numbers for doctors and nurses.
-
News
Welfare overhaul could put mental health at risk, says charity
Mental health charity Mind has voiced concerns that people with mental health problems will be forced back to work under the government's strategy to overhaul the welfare system over the next four years.
-
News
Nicholson's operating framework gets mixed review
Managers have given this year's NHS operating framework a mixed response, welcoming its emphasis on improved commissioning, while expressing concern that the national priorities are too prescriptive.