All Finance and efficiency articles – Page 31
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NHS braces for £10bn spend on outsourcing work to private hospitals
The NHS could spend £10bn outsourcing work to private hospital groups over the next four years, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert Briefing
The Integrator: Social care ‘Nightingales’ - or not?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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Trust chief: NHS should cut spend on suppliers where bosses lack diversity
Firms should not be able to “readily” access public money if they cannot demonstrate diversity among their senior leadership, an NHS trust chief advising NHS England has told HSJ.
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Exclusive: NHS agency put under Cabinet Office-backed review in wake of PPE crisis
Government has placed the national agency which was at the centre of the coronavirus PPE crisis under review, HSJ can reveal.
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NHS and private sector on collision course over plans to reduce hospital waiting list
The NHS and private hospitals are on a collision course over a new multibillion-pound deal for how the service will access the independent sector’s capacity.
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Exclusive: No refunds over Ayanda Capital mask deal
The government will not receive reimbursement for 50 million masks which may never be used in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Care assessments return spells ‘total mess’ and years of litigation
The decision to restart continuing healthcare assessments could result in a “total mess” and years of litigation against NHS commissioners, national leaders have been warned.
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Exclusive: U-turn on mass expansion of covid care units as no funding available
Plans for a mass expansion of rehabilitation beds in new “Seacole centres” have been scrapped, with local leaders now told there is no capital funding to build them.
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5,000 jobs at risk as NHS commercial work collapses
The NHS could lose more than 5,000 research staff and around £500m in funding because of covid-19, according to senior trust leaders.
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Three trusts agree pathology 'hub' model expected to save £51m
Three trusts in east London have agreed to consolidate much of their routine pathology work on a single “hub” site.
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HSJ Local
Trust agrees sick pay uplift after pressure from unions
A London trust has resisted calls to insource its soft facilities management contract, but agreed to improved terms and conditions for staff providing the outsourced services.
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HMRC strengthens grip on NHS tax bills after trust’s legal challenge fails
The NHS could face stronger enforcement over wrongly VAT claims after a foundation trust lost an unusual legal battle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Pivotal moment for the tariff
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, this week by correspondent Tom Norton.
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NHS in talks with government over covid cash amid multibillion ‘overspend’
NHS England says it is still in discussions with the government over additional funding for the remainder of 2020-21, despite ministers announcing a budget uplift earlier this month.
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National NHS org spends £10m on further redundancies
NHS Digital spent nearly £10m on more than 150 redundancies last year as part of a major restructuring programme.
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HSJ Local
Trust lost £11m in private income due to covid
An NHS trust lost £11m in expected private income because of the covid-19 outbreak, it has revealed.
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HSJ Local
NHS should ‘never return’ to tariff system, says top trust CEO
A leading chief executive in Greater Manchester says the block contracting arrangements introduced in March should remain in place beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
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Doctors to get 2.8pc pay rise
NHS doctors in England are to receive a back-dated pay rise which will add up to £3,000 to a consultant’s salary.
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Block contracts to be extended as NHS wrangles over cash
NHS providers have been told the block contracts they have operated under during the covid pandemic will be extended by at least another month, HSJ has learned.
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Prior: use of barcodes should be ‘commonplace in the NHS’
The widespread adoption of barcoding by the NHS is needed to meet the challenge posed by the Cumberlege patient safety review, according to NHS England chair Lord David Prior.