Finance and efficiency – Page 91
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NewsAnalysis: 'Full impact of winter yet to hit the bottom line'
Policy experts have said NHS trusts were set an impossible task in 2016-17 and warned their projected deficit could worsen further because the full impact of winter has “yet to hit the bottom line”.
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NewsRevealed: 23 trusts chosen for new Carter review
Twenty-three trusts selected for first phase of Lord Carter’s new review into productivity at mental health and community service organisations NHS Improvement letter to mental health and community service trusts reveals providers chosen for initial six month engagement phase Review will follow a similar structure to Lord Carter’s previous ...
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NewsPrivate provider to rent space from NHS trust for 25 years
£38m dedicated cancer unit will occupy top four floors of Guy’s and St Thomas’ new cancer centre Negotiations underway to offer NHS patients access to private robotics theatre American hospital firm to rent the facilities on a 25 year lease A major teaching trust in London is leasing ...
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Expert BriefingThe Commissioner: Familiar cost dilemmas get chronic
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West.
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NewsStop using expensive management consultants, NHS told
Lord Carter questions the NHS’s £640m spending on management consultancies Likened policymakers to a “dog watching television” Warns the Treasury will not provide extra funding without evidence of performance Lord Carter has questioned why the NHS spent £640m on external management consultancies, describing the use of the firms ...
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HSJ LocalTrust set to miss financial target by £20m
The trust was set a financial control total of £8.6m deficit for 2016-17 £10m deterioration in December due to expected income from commissioners not being realised, as well as unexpected charges A major centralisation of acute services has reduced the number of beds at the trust, but failed to ...
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NewsSTP and forward view plans 'unrealistic', Francis warns
The NHS is facing an “existential crisis” and measures in the Five Year Forward View and sustainability and transformation plans are “unrealistic”, Sir Robert Francis QC has said.
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NewsCCGs' deficit forecast rockets by £180m
CCGs now forecast a year-end deficit of £370m, compared to £190m forecast at the mid-year point NHS England said the challenge of delivering higher levels of savings “is increasingly crystallising in individual CCG forecasts” Spending within primary care and public health budgets forecast to be £70m less than planned ...
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CommentThe big change that can reduce medical errors
There is compelling evidence that flattening the NHS hierarchy and introducing staff self management would reduce mistakes in the NHS
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Bad news warning
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ LocalRadiologist guilty of 'audacious' contract scam
A consultant radiologist has pleaded guilty to defrauding the NHS out of £24,000 after consistently carrying out additional contract work within his normal working hours.
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NewsMapped: Where in the NHS owes the DH the most money
Thirty-nine out of the 44 STP areas include providers that drew down revenue bailouts from the DH last year, which will have to be repaid Proportionally, West, North and East Cumbria STP footprint had the largest “outstanding balance” at the end of 2015-16 Five STP areas will not be ...
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HSJ LocalTrust launches scheme to cut NHS spending on lawyers
A mental health trust is preparing to launch a new legal services database that it expects to cut its spending on lawyers by 10 per cent.
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Expert BriefingNorth by North West: Taking a risk on community care
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. By Lawrence Dunhill
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CommentWhy the government should introduce a healthcare spending target
Given the pressures on health spending, there exists the dilemma of setting social care spending on a more sustainable trajectory for the longer term
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NewsNHS Improvement: Trust finances hit by A&E pressures
NHS Improvement says many providers have found ways to address financial pressures but warned others have “more work to do” Many providers will have been forced to use additional agency and bank staff in recent weeks Not yet clear how much unplanned expenditure there has been Extra strain ...
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HSJ LocalUpdated: Former trust chief faces jail after pleading guilty to fraud
A former hospital trust chief executive faces jail after she pleaded guilty to fraudulently paying her husband more than £11,000.
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News'No justification' for CCGs' rationing, says royal college
Three West Midlands CCGs to decrease the eligibility threshold for patients requiring hip and knee replacements Changes would see a 12 per cent decrease in patients eligible for hip replacements and a 19 per cent decrease for knee replacements Royal College of Surgeons says there is “no clinical justification” ...
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NewsFormer trust chief accused of unlawfully paying husband £20,000
Paula Vasco-Knight accused of two charges of fraud when she was chief executive of Torbay and South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust Court hears she commissioned her husband to produce a newsletter and a leadership document that was never submitted to the NHS Ms Vasco-Knight failed to declare interest in ...
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NewsExclusive: Trusts' capital spending plans unaffordable by £1bn
NHS Improvement says trusts’ capital spending expectations are £1bn more than the resources available Trusts asked to defer non-urgent spending to 2017-18 Concerns over some organisations, whose chief executive and chair have been asked to review their forecasts NHS trusts have been told their capital spending plans for ...