All Facilities management articles – Page 37
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Shortfall in care home funding
An extra £540m is needed to pay for residential care for older people, research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation predicts.
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DH publishes plans for failing NHS trusts
The Department of Health has published its proposals for managing failing NHS hospitals and trusts.
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Chair of NHS co-operation and competition panel named
The first chair and director of the NHS co-operation and competition panel will be Lord Carter of Coles. He will take up the post in October.
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Police cells 'unsuitable' for Mental Health Act detentions
Twice as many people are detained in unsuitable police custody for assessment under the Mental Health Act as are taken to hospital by police for this purpose, a report published by the Independent Police Complaints Commission has revealed.
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality measures obscure real picture
Bank holidays are peak times for out of hours and other urgent health services. In the run-up organisations work hard to plan capacity to ensure that available resources meet demand.
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Carbon strategy proposes tough target
The draft carbon reduction strategy for the NHS in England proposes a more stringent carbon target than the one mentioned in your article: zero-carbon hospitals by 2018.
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Hull trust buys Nuffield hospital to save money
Hulland East Yorkshire Hospitals trust has bought a private Nuffield hospital to avoid contracting out services to the independent sector.
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PFI plan could keep debts off NHS trusts' balance sheets
NHS trusts may hand their private finance initiative hospitals over to specially created charities to avoid reporting PFI debts on their balance sheets, HSJ has learned.The controversial plans would involve trusts ceding control of the hospitals to a third party.
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£1.75bn NHS surplus predicted
The NHS is set to finish this financial year with a £1.75bn surplus. The projection, based on estimates from the three months since April, is equivalent to just over 2 per cent of NHS revenue funding this year.
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Scottish car parking charges abolished
Car parking charges have been abolished at all hospitals in Scotland.
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Emma Dent on extended opening hours
Have you seen the latest monthly figures from the DH on the number of GPs offering extended opening hours? The numbers are increasing, although 22 PCTs and care trusts - 14.5 per cent - still had no practices in their areas offering extended hours.
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Facilities consortium splits from Confederation
The NHS Confederation has decided to separate off its specialised facilities support company, the Healthcare Facilities Consortium.
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Computer deal could save trusts £6.5m
Six NHS purchasing organisations have collaborated to buy IT hardware in a deal that could save them more than £6.5m in the first year.The deal, supported by OGCbuying.solutions, part of the Office of Government Commerce, involves 220 trusts across England.
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Accounting rule changes to cost hospitals £146m
New accountancy rules will bring up to 16bn of extra debt onto the NHS balance sheet and cost hospitals 146m a year.
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NHS wards infested with vermin, Conservatives claim
NHS hospital wards are 'over-run' with ants and other infection-spreading pests, the Conservatives have claimed.
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Scotland to invest in dental facilities
The Scottish government has announced a £75m investment in dental and medical facilities.
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Welsh hospitals in drive to improve food
New efforts to improve hospital food will be unveiled today by Welsh health minister Edwina Hart.
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Cancelling cleaning contracts 'will be easier'
The government will look at how to make it easier for trusts to terminate contracted-out cleaning services when they are not satisfied with them.
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Fire at University College London Hospitals
Ambulances are being temporarily diverted from University College London Hospitals foundation trust accident and emergency departments today after a fire last night.The fire broke out in the trust's Rosenheim building at around 2.30am today.
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Auditor general for Wales on home oxygen services
The NHS in Wales was not sufficiently prepared to implement changes to the supply of home oxygen services in 2006, the auditor general for Wales has concluded.