Excellence and Equity - coverage round up

Post release coverage of the white paper. With thanks to the Library Team at East London & the City Health Alliance for permission to reproduce material from their excellent Bulletin.

For ongoing coverage see the NHS Evidence Health Management White Paper section

Department of Health, “Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS”

The NHS White Paper sets out the Government's long-term vision for the future of the NHS. The vision builds on the core values and principles of the NHS - a comprehensive service, available to all, free at the point of use, based on need, not ability to pay. It sets out how we will: put patients at the heart of everything the NHS does; focus on continuously improving those things that really matter to patients - the outcome of their healthcare; and empower and liberate clinicians to innovate, with the freedom to focus on improving healthcare services. The Department is consulting on elements of these proposals. Details on how to respond can be found in the White Paper.

Analytical strategy for the White Paper and associated documents;
Secretary of State’s statement to the House of Commons;
Equality impact assessment;
Structural reform plan;
DH news story

Newsnight extended coverage (12 July 2010) – iPlayer (available until 19 July 2010)

BMA response / King’s Fund response / NHS Confederation response

Editorials/comment – Evening Standard; The Guardian; The Independent; Daily Telegraph

News stories

BBC Health: Radical overhaul; GPs to get control of funds; Secretary of State on Andrew Marr show [video];
Evening Standard: Thousands to lose jobs in NHS shake-up
The Guardian: Information revolution; Private companies role; Jobs toll; Reactions; Political briefing; Funds to be distributed to doctors: GPs won’t be paid extra
Health Service Journal^: Patient choice; Public health roles in councils; Government warned reform ‘will turn NHS upside down’; Public health directors move to local authorities; Outcome goals to replace performance framework; HSJ snap survey; No jobs left for PCTs ^ full-text of HSJ articles available to subscribers or from the Library
The Independent: Health reforms spark fears of cuts; Financial control devolved to GPs; Patient choice; Who will be held to account?
Daily Telegraph: New powers to doctors and patients; Power shift heralds opening for outsourcers; White paper details; Patients get right to routine GP appointments at weekends and evenings

Think tanks

Civitas, “Data briefing: Re. Government plans to transfer commissioning responsibility from PCTs to GPs”Health Services / Commissioning. This short briefing aims to provide insight on the scale and nature of the financial risk posed by such a move, by looking at the impact of the last reconfiguration of commissioning on performance. This occurred in 2006 when the number of PCTs was reduced in size from 302 to 152, through merging 222 PCTs and leaving 80 PCTs unchanged.
NHS revolution could set back health service by a year: think tank – Daily Telegraph; Health Service Journal^

Social Market Foundation "NHS reorganisation at best a waste of time at worst a waste of money says think tank "

Centre for Policy Studies - A spoonful of conservatism

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