All articles by Sally Gainsbury – Page 5
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NewsMinimal funding increase for NHS in spending review
NHS funding will increase by just 0.1 per cent above inflation from next year onwards, the chancellor has confirmed - the minimum required to meet the government’s “real terms increase” pledge.
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NewsRegional variations in NHS productivity revealed
Dramatic variations in NHS productivity have been revealed by a report commissioned by the Department of Health and obtained exclusively by HSJ.
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NewsNHS improves financial grip
The NHS has significantly improved its financial management since the deficit period of 2005-06, the Audit Commission has said.
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NewsFTN chair defends suspended Slipman
The Foundation Trust Network chair has issued a fierce defence of the network’s suspended director Sue Slipman.
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News'Real terms' funding increases likely to mean 1.9%, DH reveals
The Department of Health is expecting its budget to increase by as little as 1.9% next financial year, acting permanent secretary Richard Douglas has confirmed.
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NewsFoundation Trust Network considers Confed split as director suspended
The Foundation Trust Network has drawn up plans to leave the NHS Confederation, prompting opposition within the organisation, HSJ has learned.
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NewsShadow health secretary named
The new shadow health secretary is John Healey, former housing minister and member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet.
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NewsPCTs make slow progress with QIPP
Primary care trusts are already falling behind on their quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) plans, analysis by HSJ has found.
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NewsKey NHS providers face loans limits
Providers running health and social care services deemed “essential” will have their borrowings capped and will not be able to use the assets involved in those services as security in loans.
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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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Foundation trusts seek to halt automatic pay rises
Foundation trusts are drawing up plans to freeze automatic pay increases in a move which could affect up to half a million NHS staff.
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NewsNHS London revives Queen Mary's Sidcup closure plans amid patient safety concerns
NHS London has recommended “temporarily” closing the accident and emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
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NewsEight PCTs to share single management
Representatives of eight London primary care trusts have agreed to put their organisations into three clusters under one management framework, saving £48m.
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NewsRCN fears ‘dumbing down’ health visits
The government is considering “fast tracking” health visitor training in a bid to meet its pledge to employ an extra 4,200 health visitors by 2015.
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NewsLondon in talks over PCT mergers
NHS London and the Department of Health are in talks about merging London’s 31 primary care trusts into just six bodies, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has paved the way for primary care trusts to be merged as a means to make significant savings while implementing the health white paper.
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CommentBlair watch
The most disappointing aspect of Tony Blair’s autobiography A Journey is not the lack of punctuation or fresh sex scandal, but that it pretty much confirms most of what you already knew.
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DH denied access to £1.5bn unspent cash
The Treasury has not yet returned the £1.5bn NHS underspend from 2008-09, according to accounts released by the Department of Health.
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NewsHundreds of patients face hip replacement recall
A medical device company has issued an urgent safety notice after discovering problems with hip replacement devices thought to have been fitted in hundreds of NHS patients.
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NewsGP largesse alarms Lansley’s colleagues
The prospect of GPs blowing the NHS commissioning budget remains the prime concern of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s Westminster colleagues.