Ta ra, Lansley
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has been reshuffled to Leader of the House. Lyn Whitfield assesses his impact on the NHS and its IT.
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IT identified as key risk in NHS reforms
Dealing with the aftermath of the National Programme for IT in the NHS has been identified as one of the risks to the government’s latest reforms of the NHS, in a leaked draft of the risk register for the changes.
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NHS to be ‘liberated’ by Easter
The Health and Social Care Bill has cleared its final Parliamentary hurdle, with doctors welcoming amendments on confidentiality, but opponents of the reforms pledging to continue the fight.
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Government loses risk register fight
The government has been told it must publish one of the risk registers drawn up for the latest round of NHS reorganisation and reform.
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Govt fights publication of risk register
The Department of Health’s most senior civil servant has warned that publishing the risk register for the government’s health reforms would have an “insidious” effect on the workings of government.
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GPC warns on ‘privatised’ commissioning
The BMA GPC has become the latest body to come out against the Health and Social Care Bill, and voiced concern about the back-door privatisation of commissioning.
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North SHA flags reform risk to IT plans
One of England’s cluster strategic health authorities has identified the government’s health reforms as posing a risk to its IT and information plans.
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Health Bill faces storm in Lords
The Health and Social Care Bill returns to the Lords today, amid increasingly strident opposition to key elements of the government’s plans to reform the NHS.
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RCGP comes out against Bill
The Royal College of General Practitioners has become the latest royal medical college to urge the government to withdraw its Health and Social Care Bill.
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Lansley Bill comes under further fire
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is being put under further pressure to agree to amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill designed to enact his ‘Liberating the NHS’ reforms.
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