by Sam | 12 Mar 2014 | Health, Public Sector
58 votes. That was what won the day for Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt – giving him new powers to shut down local hospitals and sparing him the potential future embarrassment of his opponents challenging his decisions through the courts. By passing an amendment to the...
by Sam | 10 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
This week’s final stages of the Care Bill in the House of Commons is likely to see a cross-party revolt over plans to give the Health Secretary and officials he directly appoint (the ‘Trust Special Administrator’) power to direct changes to, or...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Mar 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
The Labour Party’s independent commission on whole person care, led by Sir John Oldham, former clinical lead at the Department of Health, has set out a wide ranging list of recommendations to encourage joined up care across health and social care, in order to...
by Sam | 20 Feb 2014 | Health, Public Sector
Dependent on your view, the delay in rolling out the NHS data-sharing scheme is either a body blow to medical treatment and patient care or the greatest thing for personal privacy since ID cards disappeared into the political void. The arguments for and against the...
by Chris Rogers | 18 Feb 2014 | Uncategorized
The Government has hailed a new agreement – called the Crisis Care Concordat – which it argues will see “dramatic improvements” in emergency support for people in mental health crisis across the country. The concordat has been signed by 22...
