All Facilities management articles – Page 32
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CommentYour Humble Servant on the future of NHS technology
‘Just imagine, you’ll log in to check out the rash in your groin, and “Amazon recommends” will also tell you how other people rated their experience with rashes’
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NewsNHS maternity services overstretched, say Tories
Almost 4,000 women in England gave birth in locations other than a designated hospital labour bed in 2008 - a 15 per cent increase over the previous year, new figures reveal.
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NewsBanks 'using PFIs to boost profits'
A study claims the high interest rates being charged for private finance initiative projects are helping banks restore their profits.
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NewsNHS chiefs told saving planet will save them money
NHS managers have been told to “set an example” by tackling climate change - and save their organisations money at the same time.
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NewsPFI hospital 'ahead of schedule'
The private finance initiative project to deliver Birmingham’s first new NHS hospital in 70 years is reportedly “significantly ahead” of schedule.
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CommentAlan Maryon-Davis on NHS carbon cutting
Chill winds in the funding forecast are no excuse to let go of the NHS’s energy saving and waste reduction targets - they just add to the urgency to act now
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HSJ KnowledgeIs PFI funding built to last?
Backing for building projects is proving hard to come by, with high borrowing rates and comatose bond markets.Steve Wright considers how to fund your estate upgrade
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NewsNHS to become a landlord for private treatment centres
The buildings and facilities of up to 16 independent sector treatment centres will need to be bought by the NHS over the next two years at a capital cost estimated at £200m, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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NewsLIFT-promoting firm is left in ‘disarray’
The government-owned company established to promote private investment in primary care is in “disarray”, according to private sector contractors.
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LeaderKeep calm and carry on: staff, like patients, need reassuring
HSJ and Nursing Times’s survey this week of almost 1,500 staff reveals a national health service largely confident in its ability to cope with the swine flu pandemic, but concerned their jobs are being made more difficult by hype and hysteria.
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NewsNHS budget pledges will squeeze Whitehall
Protecting the NHS budget will mean tax rises and/or spending cuts in other departments, according to the King’s Fund and Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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NewsCompetition panel examines trust takeover bids
The co-operation and competition panel is investigating the takeover of a trust that was not going to succeed in becoming a foundation.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the optimism bias uplift
The crowd from the finance department were relaxing in the Rat and Weasel musing on life’s three inevitables: death, taxes… and the private finance initiative.
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CommentThe social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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NewsHart announces £22m emergency care centre
Work is to begin on an emergency care centre at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan.
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NewsFinance directors plan to renegotiate supplier contracts
NHS finance directors are increasingly pessimistic about the financial outlook for their organisations and plan to address their concerns by renegotiating contracts with suppliers.
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NewsReality chips away at NHS's gold-plated pension scheme
The ‘gold plated’ NHS pension scheme swallows 10 per cent of the service’s budget, but even in these tight times reforming it is a challenge no party is keen to accep.
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NewsPEAT inspectors award record top scores
Patient environment and action teams have rated a record number of sites as excellent.
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NewsSurgery cancelled after fire in MRI suite
Surgery has been cancelled at a south London hospital after patients were evacuated when a fire broke out in a ward.
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NewsPublic views sought on plans for new North East hospital
Proposals for major changes to NHS services in Northumberland and North Tyneside have been put out for public consultation until July 28.