All Efficiency articles – Page 31
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Revealed: FT redundancy pay outs fall by more than a quarter
The amount spent on redundancy payments by foundation trusts has fallen significantly over the past three financial years, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Revealed: 'NHS Airbnb' could have launched as early as December
Plans to pilot a controversial care model with private households renting spare rooms to NHS patients post discharge could have gone live from as early as December and are not dead in the water, HSJ understands.
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Stevens: Higher pay needed to help recruitment in unpopular regions
NHS staff should be paid more to work in unpopular areas of the country to maintain “equitable access” to healthcare, Simon Stevens has said.
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Teaching trust pulls out of trouble-hit vanguard IT project
University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has pulled out of the £30m East Midlands Radiology consortium amid mounting concerns for patient safety and repeated system failures.
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'Carebnb' trust U-turns on controversial care plan
The trust involved in a controversial plan to send discharged patients to private spare rooms, under an Airbnb style model, has now said it has “no intention…to support the pilot at this time”.
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Comment
NHS relaxes grip on 18 week waits
When financial penalties were lifted from referral-to-treatment waiting times back in March, I said that looser waiting list management might be the first clear sign that focus on this NHS Constitution right was being lost. This has now happened. By Rob Findlay
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Breaking free of 'bonkers' – how not to let your organisation grind you down
The Health Service can often seem crazy. A new book offers ways out of the madness. By George Binney, Phil Glanfield and Gerhard Wilke
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HSJ Local
Trusts confirm new shared chief executive
An acute trust and a mental health and community trust have appointed a joint chief executive after forming an alliance to make services more integrated.
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Exclusive: Staffing agencies' profits fall after national squeeze on rates
The four largest agencies supplying temporary medical staff to the NHS have seen a 24 per cent fall in turnover, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NHSI reveals nationwide pathology network plan
NHS Improvement has outlined plans to create 29 pathology networks across England in a bid to make nine per cent savings as part of work to implement recommendations set out by Lord Carter.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust raises concerns over tie up with smaller hospitals
Concerns have been raised by a teaching trust that consolidating its back office with two smaller local trusts may not deliver direct savings for the larger provider, HSJ has learned.
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First national procurement contract aims for four per cent savings
The architects of the NHS’s new national procurement drive have suggested that the first element scheme should deliver savings of around four per cent.
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How to cut the cost of diabetes: an in-depth guide
Read HSJ’s digital guide on improving compliance by patients and providing services that better serve their needs, in association with Roche Diabetes Care
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DH puts £730m NHS logistics contract on the market
Organisations are set to bid for a contract worth nearly three quarters of a billion pounds after the Department of Health published a tender as part of its new national procurement model.
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Buyout scheme to cut CCG spending on empty buildings
Commissioners are being offered the chance to buy themselves out of their liability for costs associated with vacant properties under a new scheme which starts today.
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Comment
A clear timetable is needed for NHS tech funding
Nicola Blackwood and Nicola Perrin on how a digital transformation with respect to data in the NHS must be all inclusive
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The importance of keeping the faith in a turbulent summer
Sean Duggan, chief executive of the Mental Health Network, reflects on a tough few weeks of headlines for mental health
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NHS England rebuff GIRFT surgery recommendations
NHS England has rebuffed an attempt by efficiency leaders to ensure commissioners follow national guidance over the provision of bariatric surgery.
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The secret to effective joint working between clinicians and managers
A highly successful cross NHS programme has shown how clinicians and managers can harmoniously work together, share Professor Marion Bain and others