Archive: Health And Social Care Bill

NHS reforms could endanger children, warn professionals

Professionals fear that the system could become fragmented and disorganised

Health professionals are expressing concerns that the changes to the NHS will make child protection and related health services more difficult.

Labour: NHS reforms are a dog's dinner

Save the Children: New plans will help make work pay

Comment: The NHS is unsustainable, but these reforms won't fix it

Leaked risk register reveals full scale of threat to NHS

Responses to major emergencies could be compromised by NHS reforms, risk register warns

The health service could face higher costs, struggle with emergencies and be undermined by a rushed implementation of reforms, the NHS risk register has warned.

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'We gather to dismantle the NHS'

Triumphant ministers are presiding over the final legislative stages of the health and social care bill - a process the opposition claims represents the last rites of the NHS.

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Ministers eye NHS reform finish line

Time to let go? NHS reforms approaching royal assent

Hugely unpopular NHS reforms are set to clear the Commons for good on Wednesday, despite desperate last-gasp efforts to stall the health and social care bill.

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NHS reforms: GPs will do admin 'four days a week'

"GPs do a wonderful job looking after patients – they should be allowed to get on with it."

GPs might be left with only one day a week to look after patients if NHS reforms become law, according to research released today.

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Comment: The Lib Dems' NHS limbo

The process of supporting the bill, then pausing it and amending it, has utterly compromised the Lib Dem position

A kind of centrifugal force is pinning the Lib Dems to the side of the fuselage as their legislation spirals out of control.

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Nowhere to hide for NHS risk register

The decision was praised by opponents of the controversial bill

The government is refusing to immediately publish the transition risk register after its appeal against a freedom of information ruling failed.

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Health workers ready for NHS showdown

A TUC-organised rally taking place this evening will see campaigners opposed to the coalition's proposed changes unite in Westminster’s Central Hall.

Over 2,000 medical workers are descending on Westminster later to protest against the government's NHS reforms.

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Hancock: Clegg should drop his support for the bill

Lib Dem councillors in Portsmouth, led by MP Mike Hancock, call on deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to drop his support for the health and social care bill.

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Burnham: NHS reform concessions are a fig leaf

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham criticises the latest NHS reform concessions as an empty gesture from the government.

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Howe: NHS reform bill will stay true to its original intent

Health minister Earl Howe says the latest amendments to the health and social care bill do not diminish its original goals.

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Sketch: The neverending jeering of Andrew Lansley

Another tough day at the office for Andrew Lansley

There was nowhere the health secretary would less like to be than the Commons this afternoon.

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Department of Health: NHS reform puts communities in charge

The government continues to defend its controversial health and social care bill, with a spokesman for the department of health yesterday telling the BBC

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Lord Crisp: NHS bill is a mess

The former NHS chief executive stated his opposition to the Health and Social care bill in an interview yesterday

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Miliband: Coalition creating 'two-tier' NHS

The leader of the opposition has argued in The Times that the health and social care bill is not the reform the NHS needs

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Ministers reject Cabinet 'concern' with NHS reforms

Ministers have dismissed claims of wavering Cabinet support about the government’s controversial health and social care bill.

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Comment: The NHS is unsustainable, but these reforms won't fix it

Malcolm Prowle: 'Some believe that a tax-funded NHS, free at the point of use, is unsustainable in the longer term.'

Once again, the NHS threatens to make the Tories toxic.

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Miliband bids to kill off NHS bill

NHS reforms return to parliament this week

Opponents of the government's NHS reforms have three months to "stop this bill", Ed Miliband has said.

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RCP: Mentally ill will suffer from NHS reforms

The Royal College of Psychiatrists explains its lack of support for the health and social care bill before yesterday's amendments were released:

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Lansley: We've listened and we've amended NHS reforms

Health secretary Andrew Lansley explains the government's approach as ministers publish further amendments to the health and social care bill:

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Labour: NHS reforms are a dog's dinner

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham comments on the Department of Health's latest health and social care bill amendments:

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RCN: Ministers must drop NHS reforms

Royal College of Nursing chief executive and general secretary Peter Carter explains why the RCN is calling on ministers to drop the health and social care bill completely:

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Department of Health: NHS reforms aren't about efficiency savings

A Department of Health spokesperson comments on the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives' call to drop the health and social care bill outright:

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Labour: Time to put NHS reforms out of their misery

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham comments on the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives' call to drop the health and social care bill outright:

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RCM: Ministers have failed to justify NHS reforms

Royal College of Midwives chief executive Cathy Warwick explains why the RCM is calling on ministers to drop the health and social care bill completely:

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