Care Quality Commission All NHS providers have to register under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. We need to apply for registration in January 2010. The Care Quality Commission is currently consulting on proposed fees for registration and it looks as though it will cost this Trust £60,000 per year. Politics! Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Health, is/has been in Washington (perhaps...
Paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney as well as many other cultural works – with a combined value of £19.8 million – were saved for the nation last year thanks to the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has told Parliament. Collections in Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton and Oxford, as well [...]
International survey of frontline doctors rates NHS best for specialist waiting times. Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Health Secretary, slammed the Tories' pledge to scrap cancer treatment guarantees whilst commenting on news that an international survey announced this morning has ranked the NHS a world beater. The Commonwealth Fund survey of frontline doctors in 11 countries ranked the UK as 1st in short...
• News: Poor handovers 'causing hospital deaths' • Video: Save the Children presents Chunilal's story from India Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk **************** Today's top story - International study shows UK GPs rate improvements to their health service highest Andy Burnham welcomed the findings at a speech in Washington, and said it showed that the overhaul...
Andy Burnham welcomed the findings at a speech in Washington, and said it showed that the overhaul of the health service had paid off GPs rate improvements to the quality of patient care in the UK more highly than doctors in 10 other industrialised countries rate their health services, according to an international comparative study released today. Coincidentally, British primary care physicians also...
Asked if Andy Burnham’s event in the US was in support of President Obama’s health plans, the PMS said that it was not. It was a think tank event. The Government was very proud of the achievements of the NHS and the improvements over the last 10 years or so. There may or may not [...]
We have another lightweight politician as Secretary of State for Health. He has become the latest in a long line of people ill-suited to the job and without the intellectual calibre and management skills to do the job. They come and they go. The latest person in the revolving seat (average tenure 18 months) is Mr Andrew 'Andy' Burnham MP . He is a likeable cheeky-chappie kind of politician with no...
GPs rate improvements to the quality of patient care more highly than doctors in 10 other industrialised countries, according to an international study released today. Coincidentally, British primary care physicians also emerge as those most likely to be financially rewarded for meeting medical targets or care goals. The study of health services in 11 nations, carried out by the US-based Commonwealth...
On paper, it made sense to set up a common register for every paid worker in social care, says David Brindle The dream of a professional register of 1.4 million social care workers in England is over. Today's report on the inquiry into the failure of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to regulate competently the conduct of social workers and social work students – the first and easiest 100,000...
The Amanjit Jhund NHS Column This weekend has seen battle lines being drawn with the Conservatives over the issue of waiting times and targets . Andy Burnham has announced that he wishes to enshrine many of the Labour party's pledges on waiting times in the statute books in effect to “Tory proof” the NHS. The primary beneficiary of this policy will be the 18 week target on treatment. As...
According to the bush telegraph Nick Griffin is now going to stand in Barking and not Thurrock. So the Battle for Barking will be between Nick Griffin & Margaret Hodge. But can the BNP really convince 4295 Labour voters to switch to them? 2009 Euro Elections Barking & Dagenham LAB 11236 BNP 6941 UKIP 5285 CON 4961 LIB 1645
...as 'Right Said Fred' didn't sing: Harry Cohen has called for a public health warning to be issued about the risk of spreading swine flu by kissing . The Leyton MP, who is standing down at the next election, asked Andy Burnham, health secretary, to issue a public health warning about the perils of kissing, “ including a two-cheek greeting .” A 'two cheeck greeting'. On the face , I presume...?...
Having been bed-ridden with some kind of stinking cold for the past few days, I thought it appropriate to do something on health tonight. That's not the only reason, of course, nor even the main one. The main one is Labour's latest attempt to steal Tory policy thunder with an announcement by their child of a health minister, Andy Burnham, that filled this morning's front pages, to rig NHS waiting list...
A war of words has broken out over the future of the National Health Service after ministers launched the right to free private treatment for patients on waiting lists.
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