guarantee from prime minister David Cameron that he was open to changing the Health Bill, GP can reveal...significant changes to its plans to avoid a defeat for the Health Bill in the House of Lords. However ... 'major change in the direction of travel' was unlikely. A senior GP adviser to the DoH warned that GP ... the Health Bill. He said Mr Cameron sees the exercise as an opportunity to create a 'stronger Bill'. 'I ...
The pause in the Health Bill's progress was the right move, health select committee chairman tells...of Commons health select committee. Concerns had centred on plans to drive up competition in the NHS, but the report triggered alarm about plans to cut back the health secretary's direct responsibility for providing a comprehensive health service. The report also called for a rethink on the remit of GP consortia ...
As the government's Health Bill listening exercise closes, Susie Sell assesses feedback from health...Pressure has been building for changes to the Health Bill since the government said on 4 April ... have always been the most contentious aspect of the Health Bill. Many health organisations fear ... for a broader range of health professionals on consortia boards. The BMA says the Bill should include ...
With limited funds available, GP commissioners need the help of public health professionals...the persisting problem of health inequalities. The Health Bill describes extensive changes to the mechanisms for planning, developing and localising health services and putting control in the hands of GPs and local authorities (LAs), their partners in local communities. Local people's health Access to most NHS services ...
the Health Bill, the Men's Health Forum has said....The charity will highlight the need to boost men's access to primary care in its submission to the House of Commons public bill committee. Men's Health Forum chief executive Peter Baker said: 'Men are often reluctant to go to the doctor and when they do go their condition is often more advanced ...
Despite all the debate and interest in the NHS reforms, the Health Bill that will underpin them.... Subsequent amendments to the Health Bill in June initially seemed to have appeased critical MPs and GP ... point' has now been reached with the Health Bill. What's needed now is to 'just get on with it', he says ... will provide a key opportunity to get the Health Bill scrapped. 'The Commons was inevitably going to vote along ...
value may have had a shock reading the DoH's latest policy document. Although the public health White ... ', it sets some clear limits on the freedoms GP consortia will enjoy. The public health White Paper makes clear that, in taking the lead on public health, local authorities will enjoy significant influence over ...
Surmountable challenges lie ahead for consortia on the GP/public health interface....In the new commissioning landscape emerging in response to the Health and Social Care Bill there is an expectation that nascent consortia and directors of public health will forge close working relationships. Also, the proposed health and well-being boards will need to work closely with consortia to identify priority ...
At least 15% of QOF funding will be assigned to public health and primary prevention indicators...prevention. This will include assigning at least 1 in every 7 of QOF funding to public health ... the health of their patients, the department proposes that a sum at least equivalent to 15% of the current value of the QOF should be devoted to evidence-based public health and primary prevention indicators ...
the Health Bill was unclear about who should organise child health services....which aspects of child health GP consortia would be responsible for. 'Most GP consortia I speak to are really worried about how to fulfill their role, particularly in child and adolescent mental health and services for disabled children,' he said. 'Most child health services really need to be commissioned ...
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