Will doctors need MBAs in NHS reforms?
The health reforms are so wideranging they may prove difficult to cover, writes Jon Snow – but more importantly, will they be difficult to implement as well?
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More than 50,000 NHS jobs will be lost over the next five years due to Government spending cuts, a campaign group claims, as Channel 4 News finds mental health services could be badly hit.
Channel 4 News takes a look at why leading healthcare charities are so worried about the radical reforms proposed for the NHS.
The health reforms are so wideranging they may prove difficult to cover, writes Jon Snow – but more importantly, will they be difficult to implement as well?
A radical NHS shake-up, which will cause 24,500 job losses, is called “patient-centred” by Andrew Lansley but the Patients Association tells Channel 4 News it is “not convinced” as cuts start to bite.
The Government’s reforms signal one of the biggest upheavals for the National Health Service since it was formed 60 years ago, writes Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria Macdonald.
As David Cameron turns out to support the NHS reforms, our Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria Macdonald looks at what difference they will make in your local health service.
The Government is to tap its reserves of the swine flu vaccine to help tackle the winter flu outbreak, but the drug will not combat the strain that has killed five people this winter.
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities will be abolished, as control of the NHS budget transfers to GPs. Hospitals will also be fined if they continue to use mixed-sex wards.
A doctor who set up the first GP consortia tells Channel 4 News that medical professionals, PCTs and local authorities need a roadmap from the Government to guide them through its radical reforms.
The Coalition Government is to press ahead with radical reforms of the National Health Service, which will see as much as 80 per cent of the budget in the hands of GPs, writes Victoria Macdonald.
As the Government pushes ahead with NHS reforms, Channel 4 News looks into where cuts are already being made as the NHS tries to achieve efficiency savings.
The Coalition Government is to press ahead with radical reforms of the National Health Service, which will see as much as 80 per cent of the budget in the hands of GPs, writes Victoria Macdonald.
The Government will publish its Public Health White Paper later today, but it will not include strategies on food, obesity, alcohol and tobacco, writes Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria Macdonald.
FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s commitment to “cut the deficit, not the NHS”.