Finance and efficiency – Page 16
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NewsExclusive: ‘Shameful’ £500m cut to workforce and reform budgets
Government is set to cut its planned spending on adult social care workforce, reform and integration by at least £550m, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSystem hires extra senior managers in bid to save £43m
A new procurement collaboration is hiring multiple new senior managers as part of a system-wide operating model aiming to save £43m over five years.
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NewsTwo national procurement contracts awarded
The national procurement agency has awarded contracts to manage its non-clinical categories for up to six years to two incumbent external service providers, following an 11-month procurement process.
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CommentSeven ways to improve NHS care while also saving money
The National Institute for Health and Care Research recently revealed seven ways the NHS can both improve care and save money. Dr Jemma Kwint, NIHR Senior Research Fellow and lead author of the report, explains.
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NewsNew clinical waste strategy launched to guard against repeat of 2018 crisis
Trusts will significantly expand their capacity to treat clinical waste in-house to improve national and regional resilience as part of a new national strategy.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: PwC to review system’s ‘£800m deficit’
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsNHS England considers ‘centrally negotiated’ energy contract
NHS England is considering plans for a centrally negotiated energy contract, HSJ understands.
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NewsTrusts not using new procurement route risk losing share of £250m fund
NHS England is making a dynamic purchasing system its approved route to market for trusts buying equipment and systems to run virtual wards and remote monitoring programmes, HSJ can reveal.
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News30pc cut to ICB staffing budgets
Integrated care boards have been told to cut their running costs — most of which is their staff — by 30 per cent.
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NewsNHS ‘notoriously bad’ at managing contracts, says procurement chief
NHS trusts are ‘notoriously bad’ at managing their contracts with suppliers, according to a former Department of Health and Social Care official who is now setting up a large-scale procurement team.
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NewsConsultancy firm wins £13m contract for NHSE merger work
NHS England is paying management consultancy PA Consulting up to £13m under a new contract to help merge its national directorates and regional teams with those of NHS Digital and Health Education England.
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: Two year waits have NOT been ‘eliminated’
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsRevealed: the 14 ICSs admitting they will end the year in deficit
At least 14 integrated care systems have now officially admitted they will end the year with a budget deficit, after just five areas said this at the start of the year.
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NewsExclusive: The highest price increases for products bought by the NHS
The NHS faced price increases of up to 50 per cent on some common products last year, although there were notable reductions in other high-volume items, analysis has found.
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NewsTwo trusts reverse £20m contract award after court challenge
Two acutes have reversed a decision to award a £20m contract for patient transport services shortly after an unsuccessful bidder started legal action.
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NewsPay rises should not exceed 3.5pc next year, warns government
Giving NHS staff a pay rise of more than 3.5 per cent next year would mean cuts to the NHS’s non-pay budget or an increase in unsustainable borrowing, the government has claimed.
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NewsSupplier’s ‘panic’, not NHSE, to blame for failed £144m contract bid
Human error during a last-minute submission – and not a ‘defective’ procurement portal – caused an IT supplier to miss out on the chance of winning a £144m NHS contract, a High Court judge has ruled.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Flory tasked with getting a grip
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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NewsICSs which ‘play the game’ offered extra funding
NHS England is offering extra revenue funding to systems that commit to hold their financial positions for 2022-23 at an agreed level, HSJ has learned.
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CommentHow to turn the whining into winning
Former estate agent Darren Graft was dubbed the thickest ever winner of The Apprentice. After six weeks working as Lord Sugar’s business partner, Darren reinvented himself on Instagram as Britain’s leading Gen Z business influencer. Here he offers advice to NHS’s debt-ridden hospital trusts. As told to Julian Patterson.