All Finance and efficiency articles – Page 80
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Simon says move the goalposts?
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News
CCGs tender £125m contract for integrated urgent care
A distressed health economy is redesigning its urgent care services with commissioners releasing a £125m contract to bring urgent out of hospital services together.
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Government seeks to halt GPs leaving profession
Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce a new government backed indemnity scheme for GPs in England later today.
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Finance directors 'feel bullied' by NHS regulators to agree targets
The professional body representing public sector accountants has warned experienced NHS finance staff are “often feeling bullied by regulators to publicly report numbers they do not think are achievable”.
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More funding needed to lift pay cap, warn Stevens and Mackey
The government will need to provide the extra cash needed to lift the public sector pay cap in the NHS, Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey told MPs.
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HSJ Local
Transformation funding held back under national savings drive
Commissioners in Lincolnshire have told GPs they will need to hold back transformation funding for 2017-18 in response to a flagship national savings programme.
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Comment
Brexit may be dominating political debate, but the NHS cannot be ignored
Party conference season saw some positive noises about politicians’ plans for the NHS. But serious issues have still not been addressed, says Anita Charlesworth
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News
High Court rejects pharma industry's challenge to drug cost controls
The High Court has thrown out a legal challenge by the drugs industry to a controversial affordability test on the introduction of new treatments.
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Final contract for NHS procurement shake-up put on market
Procurement leaders hope to improve the way the NHS handles transactions with a contract for financial management worth nearly £50m that has gone to the market.
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HSJ Local
Teaching trust 'on the verge' of special measures
A teaching trust ‘on the verge’ of financial special measures is applying for distress funding after predicting it will run out of cash next month.
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Exclusive: Trust bosses call on government to confirm sustainability cash beyond 2019
NHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the £1.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.
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Comment
Cowper's Cut – Now is the autumn of our discontent
With the budget approaching, austerity still biting and the deficit not shifting, the NHS is not the only institution fearing a tough end to the year
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News
Revealed: How much NHS trusts made from land sales
Sales of land or physical assets by NHS trusts generated cash receipts of £220m in 2016-17.
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DH completes team assessing £730m procurement after last minute plea
The Department of Health has managed to recruit new evaluators for a £730m procurement after two people left the team tasked with assessing bids at late notice.
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New scrutiny body to be 'voice of clinicians' in NHS procurement
Products bought for NHS trusts are set to be subject to greater scrutiny for clinical value as part of a major overhaul of NHS procurement.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Capital funds are coming for the NHS, but there's a catch
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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News
CCGs overspend by £60m but only one revises forecast
Local commissioners overspent against their financial plans by nearly £60m in the four months to August, but NHS England still expects them to deliver a near breakeven position by the end of 2017-18.
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Nine trusts plan pharma network to save £17m
Nine acute trusts are collaborating on a pharmaceutical network that could achieve efficiency savings estimated at more than £17m.
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Labour calls for £500m 'winter bailout fund'
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth will call on the government to provide a £500m “winter bailout fund” for health and care services.
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Updated: Labour would bring PFI contracts 'back into the NHS'
A Labour government would “bring” private finance initiative contracts “back in house”, the shadow chancellor has announced.