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Cameron needs to rethink Health Bill strategy

By , Wednesday, 29 February 2012, Be the first to comment
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What a difference a year makes. Rewind 12 months and GP joined 140 representatives of the 52 first wave of GP pathfinder consortia at a 10 Downing Street reception hosted by prime minister David Cameron.

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Lansley has questions to answer this afternoon

By , Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 1 Comment
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Nearly 400 public health doctors have joined the revolt against the government’s Health Bill. Writing in a letter to the Telegraph they say health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans will cause the NHS ‘irreparable harm’ (scroll down this page for the full letter and all the signatories).

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Will Lansley listen to the latest evidence on NHS competition?

By , Wednesday, 21 September 2011, Be the first to comment
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A new book from The King’s Fund investigates the impact of New Labour’s introduction of competition to the NHS.

The authors point out that Labour’s market reforms took place in a totally different context to the NHS of today, in which a relatively cash-rich financial climate reduced the impact of competition on hospital trusts.

They argue that competition alone will be insufficient to meet the new and complex challenges of an ageing population and improving care for long term conditions, in a service facing huge financial restrictions. Read more »

The perfect storm for early GP retirement

By , Friday, 26 August 2011, Be the first to comment
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Earlier this week GPonline.com reported that GPs are beginning to take early retirement because of confusion around NHS reforms. The results of our poll on the issue show that 75% of you believe the Health Bill is leading GPs to retire early.

However, it is not just NHS reform that is causing GPs to consider early retirement. As the comments below our story show, changes the government is making to the NHS pension scheme are also likely to be a major factor in any decision.

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NHS jitters – some justified

By , Wednesday, 10 August 2011, 1 Comment
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I’ve had two shocks about the NHS in the last day or so and will be arguing about our healthcare next week when visiting France.

The first jolt was reading that between 1979 and 2005 and compared to 18 other western countries, our health service was more cost-effective at cutting mortality rates than 16 of them: the USA was the least cost-effective and France’s score nothing to envy.

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Why Andrew Lansley’s leaked letter attacking NHS pension reform is good news for him

By , Wednesday, 27 July 2011, Be the first to comment
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Last week my colleague Emma Bower blogged that health secretary Andrew Lansley was unlikely to enjoy much of a summer holiday as the BMA and RCGP rounded on the amended Health Bill.

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Not much of a summer holiday for Andrew Lansley

By , Thursday, 21 July 2011, 2 Comments
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I don’t imagine health secretary Andrew Lansley will have a very relaxing summer holiday this year.

Parliament has gone into recess and MPs are scurrying off to their constituencies and holiday homes as we speak, but it looks like Mr Lansley may well be spending the summer dealing with possibly the fiercest criticism yet of his Health Bill.

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How David Cameron sped up the NHS merry-go-round

By , Thursday, 7 July 2011, Be the first to comment
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It took Tony Blair’s Labour government several years and a couple of health secretaries to draw up major health reforms.

Blair fan David Cameron wanted to learn from the previous government’s mistakes, and do more, faster.

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Government must stop rail roading the Health Bill through

By , Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 2 Comments
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On Monday GPonline revealed exclusively that former shadow health minister Norman Lamb thought the Health Bill would become law easily because Liberal Democrats had been won over by the listening exercise.

However, commenters on the story thought that Mr Lamb, who had threatened to quit if the reform plans were not overhauled, was being over optimistic.

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Health Bill revisions may mean less freedom for GP commissioners

By , Tuesday, 14 June 2011, Be the first to comment
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The publication of the NHS Future Forum report yesterday signalled an end to the government’s ‘pause’ in its health
reforms – and later today we will see how David Cameron plans to amend the Health Bill.

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