All Efficiency articles – Page 26
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News
Exclusive: NHSI hiring consultants to create new efficiency 'model' for trusts
NHS efficiency chiefs are hiring management consultants to draw up a new model for how trusts should spend billions of pounds on goods and services, HSJ can reveal.
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News
NHSI to require business cases for subsidiary companies
NHS providers must submit a business case to show setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company yields value beyond VAT savings, under new proposals from NHS Improvement.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: Grasping the nettles
The NHS leadership doesn’t seem ready to openly discuss the problems besetting the NHS, especially the workforce crisis, let alone seek meaningful solutions, notes Andy Cowper
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News
New NHS efficiency challenge is half that of 5YFV
The government’s funding settlement will leave the NHS with an efficiency challenge of around £11bn – which is half the amount that was required in the Five Year Forward View period, according to a new analysis.
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News
Hopson: Long term NHS plan must not be 'written behind the bike sheds'
The NHS long term plan must not be “written behind the bike sheds” by national chiefs if the NHS is to take ownership and deliver its targets, the body representing trusts has warned.
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Comment
NHS long term plan should herald new approach to deliver further efficiency
The NHS long term plan should be based on partnership working between national leaders, trusts and local systems, writes David Williams
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Comment
Productive and unproductive organisational change: a view from within
With mergers of CCGs picking up, Bie Nio (Pauline) Ong notes that for any organisational change to be successful it should focus more on people rather than just structure
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News
David Nicholson: NHS efficiency 'paid the price' for Lansley reforms
The NHS “paid the price” for the Lansley reforms by losing sight of important efficiency programmes as senior managers were left “running around applying for jobs and changing structures”, the health service’s former head has said.
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News
NHS Improvement and NHS England face 20 per cent budget cuts
NHS England and NHS Improvement must cut their costs by 20 per cent through developing a new joint operating model, according to plans discussed by senior figures today.
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Expert Briefing
Performance Watch: Carter review lays bare ambulance woes
Welcome to HSJ’s Performance Watch expert briefing. Our fortnightly newsletter on the most pressing performance matters troubling system leaders. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Carter sets out £500m emergency care efficiency opportunity
The NHS could deliver around £500m of annual savings by squeezing out unwarranted variation in ambulance performance, operations and procurement, a major review published today concluded.
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News
Majority of pathology networks yet to agree new model
More than half of the 29 proposed pathology networks comprising acute and specialist NHS trusts have yet to agree on a model to reconfigure their laboratory services, eight months after the initial deadline passed.
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Comment
Government must boost dementia research spending
Dementia is the health crisis of our time and the government needs to pull up its socks with an increase in dementia research, notes Hilary Evans
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HSJ Local
Eight trusts tender £2bn pathology contract amid network shake-up
An NHS pathology contract worth more than £2bn has been put on the market with the aim of linking eight trusts’ laboratory services.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Shelford trust risks 'damaging relations' by slowing down invoice payments
A Shelford Group provider has risked damaging relationships with external suppliers by slowing down its invoice payments to support its cash balance.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: BCF delays create decommissioning risk
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. This week by HSJ commissioning correspondent Sharon Brennan.
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News
DHSC awards £730m NHS logistics contract following High Court victory
A £730m contract for transporting medical equipment to NHS trusts has been awarded by the Department of Health and Social Care, after the government saw off a legal challenge from a losing bidder.
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HSJ Interactive
Smart scheduling: doing more with the same
Ben Horner, John Gooch and Graham Rich outline steps for trust leaders to boost productivity by using existing resources
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Comment
More intelligent approach needed to redesign outpatient services
With outpatient activity often ignored in policy creation, Nigel Edwards delineates the learnings from an event held to hear from people who have fundamentally changed outpatient services
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News
Trust paid interim manager £311,000 for six months work
An acute trust paid an interim manager more than £300,000 for six months work – despite a national crackdown on excessive pay rates, HSJ can reveal.