All Finance articles – Page 140
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NewsNHS revenues fall at private hospital firms
NHS revenues have fallen year-on-year at two large private providers, according to financial results released this week.
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HSJ LocalAnalysis: How top trusts saved money by revaluing their estate
HSJ finance correspondent Lawrence Dunhill explains “modern equivalent asset” revaluations - an accounting “wheeze” being used increasingly by NHS trusts.
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News'Vulnerable patients' face ongoing caps to care funding
Commissioners have been allowed to continue applying cost caps to the more than £3bn of NHS Continuing Healthcare claims as long as they follow new new government rules.
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NewsNHSI efficiency director to quit
The director responsible for helping NHS trusts deliver £1bn of productivity savings is leaving NHS Improvement, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentPlanning for next winter must start now
Derek Alderson on how we need to look at increasing capacity, reconfiguring surgical services and greater separation of elective and emergency sites sooner than later to avoid winter pressures
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NewsNHS accused of inflating bank rates under pressure from regulator
Agencies accuse trusts of upping rates paid to bank workers to reduce agency spend Recruitment and Employment Confederation says move may be “anticompetitive” News comes as NHS Improvement data shows £400m year on year bank spend increase, and predicts £843m overspend in 2017-18 Agencies supplying temporary staff to ...
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NewsNHSI pathology proposals agreed by less than half of trusts
Less than half of areas have so far fully agreed to NHS Improvement’s plans to set up a regional pathology network, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Struggling trust’s deficit could reach £144m
A struggling West Midlands trust has warned its deficit could reach £144m, which is more than double its official forecast.
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NewsNHS Improvement seeks Treasury cash for wave of trust takeovers
NHS Improvement and the Treasury have discussed proposals for “transaction funding” to support a new wave of takeovers of underperforming trusts by other organisations, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrust penalised after including walk in centre data in A&E performance
Regulators withheld funding from a teaching hospital after it admitted only meeting its accident and emergency target “through the inclusion of the walk in centre performance [data]” from a facility it does not run, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTop trust’s acquisition delayed over national funding
The acquisition of a hospital trust by its high performing neighbour has been delayed by ongoing discussions about its bid for national funding.
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NewsRevealed: 'Zero day' stays driving emergency admission growth
Two thirds of the growth in emergency admissions in recent years has been for patients who are discharged without an overnight stay, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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CommentHonesty required when talking about mental health funding
Ministers and senior health leaders speak about record levels of spending on mental health but the experience of those on the frontline speaks a different truth, writes Wendy Burn
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NewsGovernment interrogates prices to stymie £200m-plus drugs overspend
Government has begun intensively monitoring new information on the generic drug market to try to stymie additional costs which are running into hundreds of millions of pounds, HSJ has been told.
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CommentHistory repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce
The problems that University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust, and King’s College Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich are facing a direct consequence of the acquisitions they made when South London Healthcare Trust and Mid Staffs failed, says Robert Royce
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HSJ LocalTrust secures vital capital for hospital rebuild
The redevelopment of a community hospital is back on track after NHS Property Services approved one of its largest ever individual capital investments of nearly £12m.
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HSJ LocalVirgin deal would undermine other NHS services, says judge
A county council’s award of a £104m contract to Virgin Care would “significantly” undermine the incumbent NHS trusts’ ability to maintain other services, a judge has said.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Treasury risks repeating PFI mistakes
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsRegistered nurse recruitment outstripped by support staff growth
The number of registered nurses working in the NHS hospital sector has passed 180,000 for the first time.
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NewsNHS manager numbers return to pre-Lansley reform levels
The number of senior managers working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups has increased by more than a quarter since 2013 – and is now higher than before the reforms introduced by Andrew Lansley.