by Chris Rogers | 10 Feb 2014 | Economy, Education & Children's Services, Politics, Welfare
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has this morning used an article in The Guardian to preview his lecture tonight on Labour Party plans for public service reform, which will see public service users ‘put at the heart of services’. Miliband will set out four...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Feb 2014 | Uncategorized
The Health Select Committee has launched an inquiry into how the health service deals with complaints and patient concerns. Specifically, the inquiry will consider: Handling of complaints made by patients and families about care received in the health and care...
by Chris Rogers | 30 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
Stephen Dorrell, Chair of the Health Select Committee, has written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to question why NHS managers given large redundancy payments were re-employed in the health service months later. Dorrell, formerly a Health Secretary in the 1990s,...
by Chris Rogers | 28 Jan 2014 | Outsourcing
It’s been reported that around 300 NHS Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) staff are facing redundancy in the first wave of management job cuts since last April’s reorganisation. NHS England has confirmed there would be a 3% reduction in staffing levels in...
by Chris Rogers | 17 Jan 2014 | Employment
The provisional recommendations of the Competition Commission’s investigation into the private healthcare market have concluded the HCA must put up two of its six London hospitals for auction. As part of a series of ‘remedies’ for the market, BMI have also been...
