Finance and efficiency – Page 33
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NewsHunt accuses HMT of blocking publication of crucial workforce projections
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has accused the Treasury of preventing the Department of Health and Social Care from publishing future workforce projections submitted by the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: NHS setting up dozens of mass covid vaccination centres and seeking 40,000 staff
The health service is setting up more than 40 mass vaccination centres, and working on recruiting tens of thousands of staff for the huge covid-19 vaccination effort, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Major delays for new NHS England covid service
A key expansion of services for patients recovering from coronavirus has been delayed by several months, HSJ has learned.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Vaccine candidate No. 1 is in; Cummings is out of No. 10 and Dido Harding’s retail fallacy
Andy Cowper writes on the discussions held for better NHS funding, talks of a new contract with Palantir to use Foundry for the TAT’s data and the retail fallacy.
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News£150m extra for new list of covid asks from GP practices
NHS England has announced £150m additional primary care funding, earmarked for a range of covid-related service improvements.
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HSJ Local
NHS England set to accelerate ‘radical’ changes to payment tariffs
NHS England is proposing to accelerate ‘radical’ changes to the way funding is distributed to providers, in a move that would hasten the demise of activity-based payments.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The circular firing squad
As the news over covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths inevitably ramps up during the coming months, the fear factor will drive the blame game to ever less adequate and rational behaviour, writes Andy Cowper.
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Exclusive: Taxpayers cash could be used to fill hole created by fall in NHS private work
Taxpayers may have to make up for millions of pounds lost in NHS private patient income during the covid pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS spend on tech, estates and workforce to be overseen by national procurement 'councils'
A major consolidation of NHS procurement has been outlined by NHS regulators which will include steps to address “gaps in our collective abilities” such as how to negotiate effectively with suppliers.
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NewsRevealed: The private hospitals handed the largest covid-19 contracts
Circle Health and Spire Healthcare were handed the largest contracts to provide extra staff and capacity to the NHS at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsNHSX chief: Regions to get central funding for shared care records
Central funding will be available to help health economies develop shared care records by next September, according to NHSX chief executive Matthew Gould.
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CommentIt is policy not demographics that drives NHS funding choices
One of the big short-term decisions with very long-term consequences is the capital allocation for the NHS in this autumn’s spending review and prioritising backlog of elective care, writes Anita Charlesworth
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NewsTrusts told: Bid for cash to boost overseas recruitment by 41pc
Provider chiefs have been told to submit their plans to boost international recruitment, with a greater share of funding available to those which produce the most ambitious proposals.
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NewsGovernment launches ‘competition’ for eight new hospitals
Ministers will invite local leaders to bid for eight ‘new hospitals’, as part of the government’s NHS building plan.
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NewsNHS to become ‘world’s first carbon net zero national health system’
The NHS has been set a target of becoming carbon net zero by 2040 and cutting harmful emission reductions by 80 per cent over the next 12 years.
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HSJ LocalTeaching trust reopens five years of accounts after £50m ‘discrepancy’
A teaching trust has had to adjust five years’ worth of financial accounts after an error which meant one of its hospitals was undervalued by £50m.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens accuses drugs firm of ‘using cover of coronavirus to price-gouge taxpayers’
The NHS England chief executive has publicly accused a pharma company of ”using the cover of coronavirus to try and price-gouge British taxpayers” — a claim the firm has strongly denied.
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Expert Briefing‘Please hold, your spending review is important to us’
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, this week by correspondent Tom Norton.
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News‘Long covid’ clinics still not operating despite Hancock claim
The government and NHS England appear unable to identify units set up to treat ‘long covid’, contrary to a claim by Matt Hancock in Parliament that the NHS had ‘set up clinics and announced them in July’.
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NewsTwo consultancies won covid contracts worth at least £19m
Two consultancy firms won contracts worth at least £19m for work supporting the government’s covid response, new contract documents reveal.