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NewsExclusive: Just three NHS finance staff reported to professional body in six years
Just three NHS CIPFA members taken to disciplinary comittee over breach of professional codes over six years Sanctions range from expulsion to “reprimand” News comes after accounting scandal at foundation trust saw late payment of suppliers Only three NHS finance staff have been referred to their professional body ...
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NewsNational audits 'drain' NHS resources
Local audit network criticises increasing burden of national audit programme The annual survey of audits finds negative perception outweighs positive for the first time Concerns include lack of timely data reporting, poor methodology and incompatible IT infrastructure The national audit programme is a “drain” on hospital trusts’ resources ...
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NewsMore trusts with financial concerns
The number of NHS trusts referred to the health secretary over financial concerns increased almost three-fold in a year, a report has revealed.
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HSJ Local
'Assurances' sought over scrutiny of interim finance officers
A health minister has demanded assurances over the appointment process for interim finance directors to avoid a repeat of a situation where a primary care trust’s financial position was mis-stated by at least £28m.
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CommentStill no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’
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HSJ Local
Guy's and St Thomas' 'significantly worse' than national average for coding errors
FINANCE: An Audit Commission report has declared Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust “significantly worse” than the national average for mistakes in the clinical coding of work which it charges commissioners at tariff rates for.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall above average for coding errors
FINANCE: An Audit Commission review of coding at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust found the trust had slightly below average accuracy.
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Growing gap between rich and poor trusts
An audit of NHS organisations’ 2011-12 accounts has found a widening gap between the trusts with healthy finances and those that are struggling.
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NewsAccuracy of tariff improved, Audit Commission finds
The accuracy of a key component of the payment by results system has improved since 2007-08, according to a report from the Audit Commission.
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Monitor: patient costs could inform national prices
Monitor could use the cost of individual patients to set national prices for NHS acute care as early as 2016-17.
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NewsPFI does not explain variations in financial performance, research finds
The presence of expensive private finance initiative hospitals is not statistically linked to persistent financial problems in health economies, preliminary findings of new research suggest.
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Clustering in part to blame for PCT's £28m blackhole
The move from primary care trusts to clusters was in part to blame for a £28m black hole opening up in the books of a PCT, a report has found.
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HSJ KnowledgePutting patients in the centre: the whole person approach to integrated care
Seraphim Rose Patel explains, with a colleague, how a whole person, whole system approach can reduce NHS and social care costs.
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NewsNHS data skewed by efforts to protect trust finances
The “disproportionate” financial implications of changes to the way the NHS classifies patients have led it to maintain “inaccurate recording and inaccurate payments”, the Audit Commission has reported.
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HSJ Local
James Paget to tender audit contract
COMMERCIAL: James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust is putting its external audit contract out to tender later this month.
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NewsNHS annual reporting 'inaccurate or incomplete'
NHS organisations are presenting an “inaccurate or incomplete” picture in their annual reports, with some failing to disclose the key risks they face, according to a review by auditors Grant Thornton.
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HSJ KnowledgeSafer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services
The introduction of care navigators has revolutionised services for a London mental health trust’s older patients. Caroline Leveaux and colleagues explain.
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NewsGPs overpaid millions for 'ghost patients'
Doctors have received millions of pounds in payment for patients who have moved practice, died or been forced to leave the country, according to a new report.
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Comment'Low priority treatments should not let commissioners cut corners'
Setting the wrong clinical priorities?