Blog tagged as: NHS reform
The Secretary of State's revisions to the 2010/11 NHS Operating Framework have been published today and, as expected, the government is scaling back access targets.
Candace Imison considers the future for the NHS as the coalition government begins to form its health policies and reforms for the NHS.
What happens when we look at public money in terms of where it's spent instead of which organisations spend it? Richard Humphries explores the Total Place initiative
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John Appleby compares the words found in the coalition government's health and social care policy statements and then in the Health Bill itself with our wordle.
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Anna Dixon asks whether the Health Bill will support the Conservatives’ ambitions to replace a ‘top down approach' with devolution of power to doctors and patients.
We pull together the health policies of the Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos pre-election, to see the how they could affect future health care policy.
Patient demands and the desire to improve the quality of NHS services will outstrip NHS funding growth to the value of around £21 billion by 2013/14.
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Yesterday's historic agreement means we have a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in power. But what will this mean for health care policy and the NHS?
This week's Institute for Fiscal Studies' report drew attention to the political manifestos, but contained less information about how they would balance public finances.
Over the past few months, there has been increasing talk about concepts such as 'employee ownership'. But would the 'John Lewis model' work for the NHS?
So far, health has been the dog that hasn't barked during the election campaign. So what light did a health hustings shed on the three main parties' health reform plans?
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Chris Ham, the new Chief Executive at The King's Fund talks about his first few weeks in the role and how the election has dominated his work so far.
The three main political parties see public health as a significant issue for the future of health policy, but can we distinguish any differences in their plans?
As the dust settles after the first of the leaders' debates, did it tell us any more about the parties' approach to health?
We know money for the NHS over the next few years is going to be tight, but what are the three main political parties' pledges on funding?
In what promises to be the closest general election in recent memory, just how important will the parties' health policies be when voters confront the ballot box?
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The final piece of the NHS election jigsaw is now in place with the Liberal Democrats' manifesto, which contains a mixture of health reform proposals.
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If there's a sense of déjà vu about the health section of the Conservative manifesto, it's because it pretty much mirrors the draft version published in January.
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Ruth Thorlby explores what the Labour manifesto has to say about health care.
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The election campaign has kicked off, and with many voters still undecided, there is everything to play for. We look at Labour's plans for health reform.