All Policy articles – Page 254
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PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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Can a constitution seal the health service's freedom?
Lord Darzi's interim report last month brought the government a step closer to drawing up an NHS constitution. The challenge, writes Liz Kendall, is to bind the service without restraining it
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DoH considering 'tolerance levels' on waiting-time target
Trusts have welcomed plans to allow leeway on the government's flagship 18-week waiting-time target as proof that the NHS has 'grown up'.
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Call to reward patients using cheaper care
NHS patients should be given financial incentives to choose the most cost-efficient providers or treatments, a leading US academic has told officials.
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DoH may wipe financial slate clean for 17 struggling trusts
The Department of Health is considering wiping out historical debts of at least some of the 17 trusts it has classified as 'financially challenged'.
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Welsh MPs quiz health minister on budget
The Welsh Assembly's health, well-being and local government committee will today question health and social services minister Edwina Hart on the government's draft budget.
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£31m for children's mental health services
The government has announced it is spending £31m on increasing bed capacity and improving facilities in child and adolescent mental health services.The funding has been split between 17 projects designed to help eliminate the inappropriate use of adult psychiatric wards for children and young people.
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Welsh infection control measures introduced
Healthcare settings in Wales will have to introduce infection control measures as part of a strategy released by the Welsh Assembly.
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Care services minister to host social care web chat
Care services minister Ivan Lewis will hold a web chat tomorrow at 2pm about the Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign, how to champion social care and how to recruit more staff to the sector.
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Race equality in healthcare - getting up to speed
The NHS is still behind the times on realising the principles of ethnic equality law for all staff and service users. Caroline White reports
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Ken Jarrold on Darzi's call to shape a world class NHS
No-one who has had the privilege of working with health minister Lord Darzi will be surprised his report Our NHS, Our Future is clear and highly relevant to the challenges ahead
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Blocking migrant doctors from training posts ruled unlawful
The Court of Appeal has ruled that government guidance making it harder for doctors on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme to take up training posts in the NHS was unlawful.
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Is evidence based policy making dangerous?
Alan MaynardThere is a dangerous new rhetoric in Whitehall with politicians describing their policies as 'evidence based'. If this description were true it would be cause of great celebration. However sadly it often is synonymous with a political desire to con the public.The Darzi report in October offered some wonderful ...
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Plans to relax 18-week target
Opposition politicians have accused the government of watering down its promise that no NHS patient will wait more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment or an operation.
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Tax the rich to solve health inequality, says professor
The government has been accused of failing to tackle health inequalities fully because it is too 'afraid' of upsetting the electorate.
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Queen's Speech quiet on health policy
The lack of health legislation in the Queen's Speech has sparked calls for the government to set out its vision for the NHS.
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Noel Plumridge on finding the right GP
Is it worthwhile to register with a GP when there are other alternatives available?
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DoH workers slate leaders
More than two-thirds of civil servants at the Department of Health say the organisation is not well-managed, a staff survey reveals.
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Unions issue warning to government over plans to curb wage rise
Proposals to raise NHS wages by just 2 per cent will lead to political strife and sustained 'hard bargaining', according to health economists.