All articles by Sally Gainsbury – Page 7
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NewsMonitor issues warning on declining foundation profits
The financial fortunes of foundation trusts slipped in the last months of 2009-10, the latest report from their regulator Monitor shows.
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NewsNew GP role may create deficit
Handing the NHS commissioning budget over to GPs could cause the NHS to generate a gross annual deficit of at least £1.2bn, research due to be published soon suggests.
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NewsDavid Nicolson slows pace of Lansley change
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said he doubts whether health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans to implement GP commissioning can be achieved by April 2012.
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NewsDavid Nicholson doubts 2012 timescale for GP commissioning role
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has poured doubt over health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans to implement GP commissioning by April 2012.
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NewsLansley acknowledges PBC accountability concerns
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has acknowledged concerns over the accountability arrangements for GP budget holding but has said there is “no merit” in implementing his planned changes slowly.
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NewsDH raises cost-cuts target by a third
The Department of Health has increased the size of the reduction in NHS management costs by March 2012 by more than a third.
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NewsSir Hugh Taylor resigns from DH
Department of Health permanent secretary Sir Hugh Taylor has told colleagues he is leaving the department to take up the role of chair of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Foundation Trust.
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NewsDorrell chairs health committee
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has been elected chair of the Commons health committee.
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NewsOperating framework to pave way for abolition of targets
A revised NHS operating framework is expected to immediately relax a number of Labour’s flagship targets - and pave the way for their subsequent abolition.
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NewsNHS London loses another three board members
NHS London has lost a further three members of its board, leading to crisis talks over its ability to retain enough non executives to pass decisions.
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NewsBoard member exodus leaves NHS London at risk
NHS London is in talks with the Department of Health amid fears it will imminently have too few board members to take constitutionally sound decisions, HSJ has learned.
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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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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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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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NewsHuge A&E attendance gaps revealed
The proportion of patients attending accident and emergency departments who are not sick enough to require an admission varies widely across England, unpublished data seen exclusively by HSJ reveals.
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NewsSecond London SHA board member resigns
A second member of NHS London’s board has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s call for the strategic health authority to “halt” its reconfiguration programme.
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Department of Health in-year costs under pressure
The Department of Health was spared in the chancellor’s £6.2bn in-year cut in public spending outlined on Monday but it is still being required to make significant recyclable savings from its arm’s length bodies and central budgets.
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NewsLondon SHA chair resigns
NHS London’s chairman Sir Richard Sykes has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s intervention to “halt” the strategic health authority’s Healthcare for London plan devised by former health minister Lord Ara Darzi.
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NewsThousands of jobs at risk as strategic health authorities face axe
Strategic health authorities will be abolished by 2012, throwing the job security of over 3,000 staff in doubt.