All Finance articles – Page 14
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CommentA blueprint for NHS efficiency
David Selwyn explains how NHS leaders must optimise the surgical pathway to reduce last-minute cancellations, improving patient outcomes and saving in the process
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NewsRevealed: Government has failed to ‘level up’ innovation funding
The share of government-controlled health research funding going to the north of England has been static over the last decade, with London and the South East maintaining its dominant position.
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NewsFirm rejects NHS olive branch and continues legal action over £4.4bn contract
A logistics firm is pressing on with its legal action against NHS Supply Chain after rejecting the offer to be readmitted into the procurement for a £4.4bn contract.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE begins to claw back funding from ICSs to pay off historic debts
Three-quarters of integrated care systems face funding cuts of up to £20m as a result of NHS England’s insistence they start paying back overspends from previous years, HSJ analysis has discovered.
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Expert BriefingLabour would shackle the service to a target NHSE wanted to ditch
After Wes Streeting committed a Labour government to hitting the four-hour A&E target within a first term in office, the key question NHS leaders will want answering is “how?”, writes James Illman in this week’s Recovery Watch.
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NewsTrust plans to lose hundreds of substantive posts
A trust operating acute and community services is in talks with unions about reducing its substantive staff by 5 per cent this year, although it is not currently running a redundancy scheme.
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CommentHow do you solve the problem with productivity?
NHS productivity is among the biggest issues in this election campaign but, with the service struggling to live within its means, Julian Hartley asks what can be done to increase activity while maintaining quality and safety
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NewsStreeting commits to hit four-hour target in first term
Wes Streeting has reiterated Labour’s commitment to hitting all the NHS’s headline performance standards in its first term, including the four-hour A&E target, if it wins power.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Bringing back capital punishment
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsThree ICSs spent £21m on vacant property last year
Three integrated systems spent £21m on empty space in buildings leased from NHS Property Services last year.
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NewsNHS can succeed where it previously failed in shifting care to community, says NHSE CEO
A “startling” change to system working along with other opportunities means the NHS can succeed where it failed in the past to shift more care into the community, the NHS England chief executive has claimed.
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NewsPritchard: NHS risks becoming ‘expensive safety net’ if politicians dodge ‘key choices’
The NHS is in danger of becoming an “expensive safety net” if government and society do not “grasp the nettle” over increased funding and tougher prevention, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has claimed.
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CommentWhy the NHS should start its year on 1 October
Andi Orlowski makes the case for starting the NHS financial year from 1 October to lessen winter pains and improve joint working
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NewsNew hospitals’ design ‘unlikely’ to deliver patient benefits, says £1bn project
Government plans to standardise designs of new hospitals will be “unlikely” to deliver any benefits to patients at one of its biggest projects, according to the teaching trust overseeing the scheme.
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NewsICB chair resigns after refusing ‘to sign off another cut’
An integrated care board chair has resigned, saying she “did not feel able to sign off on a further cut”, and warning its budget plans required “unacceptable consequences”.
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NewsLabour warned against ‘disruptive’ move to ‘bypass ICSs’
The NHS Confederation chief executive has warned Labour against “bypassing” integrated care systems in pursuit of elective care targets, if the party forms the next government.
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NewsExclusive: Minister proposed £10 monthly ‘insurance style’ fee for NHS dentistry
A health minister has suggested citizens could pay a monthly fee — similar to an insurance scheme — to be entitled to free NHS dentistry, at recent meetings about how to solve the crisis in the service, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The public care, but what about politicians?
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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NewsNational NHS body sued by provider over £4.4bn deal
NHS Supply Chain’s logistics provider is suing the agency, which it claims broke procurement rules during a competitive process for a £4.4bn contract, court papers have revealed.
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NewsRegional ‘medical rate card’ plan revealed
NHS organisations across the South West are planning a “regional medical rate card” in a bid to reduce pay for additional work.