All Finance articles – Page 142
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News
Analysis: NHS told to stick together or hang separately
Two themes characterise today’s pithy new planning guidance, writes Dave West.
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Comment
For integration to work, local authorities must be equal partners in STPs
Sustainability and transformation plans can help create a coherent system out of the existing muddle of local government and NHS structures
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HSJ Local
Gloucestershire finance director got six months' pay on resignation
Helen Simpson received at least £72,500 as six months’ pay in lieu of notice Finance director resigned from Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust after £13.4m downward revision in trust’s finances Chief executive pledges to make referral to professional bodies if review finds wrongdoing at trust A finance director at ...
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NHS needs 3.5 per cent annual funding increase, economists predict
OBR projections suggest UK health services would require a greater proportion of GDP spent on public healthcare Projections assume policy remains unchanged but take account of rising costs and population changes Projection would require an additional £40bn by 2030 to be found through extra taxation or shifting spending from ...
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Comment
Bringing together innovation and clinical governance
Easing pressure on hospital and GP services is central to the work of the New Care Models Programme, with the prevention of ill-health top of the list
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Comment
Analysis: Wachter response must not ignore the digitally challenged
The Wachter review has rightly been praised for its bold statements on timetables and funding – and its pragmatism - but a robust plan is still needed for digitally-challenged and non-acute trusts, writes James Illman
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Comment
Now is the (earlier than usual) winter of our discontent
As talk hots up of old-school NHS disasters, thankfully Hodge’s memoirs and Labour’s woes provide distractions
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Setting the scene for the drama in store
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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HSJ Knowledge
Roundtable: Making the most of technology
Doing technology well involves negotiating multiple hurdles, from sceptical boards to lack of national direction, heard HSJ’s latest roundtable panel
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News
NHS managers face crackdown on conflicts of interest
NHS England consultation document suggests number of areas where declarations of interest should be made Senior managers face declaring shareholdings, paid positions, family relationships and political memberships Doctors could have to declare private practice earnings but other staff are not included NHS executives earning money from consultancy, advisory ...
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Expert Briefing
HSJ Catch Up: Disciplinary hearings for acute chiefs; HSJ Awards shortlist
Your essential update on the week in health
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Shaping the STP narrative
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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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Simon Stevens' summer offensive
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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Comment
Boards must make decisions with patients, not for them
It is crucial to get patients involved to design their own care plans and not dismiss patient experience as an additional cost during budget restraints
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Comment
We need emotional humans, not employee automatons
NHS staff need a sense of psychological safety in order to overcome the fear to question, take risks and fail
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Expert Briefing
The Commissioner: Christmas comes early for NHS leaders
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable weekly insight for commissioners, by Dave West
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HSJ Local
Trust to receive millions as mental health research centre
Oxford Health FT and Oxford University named second mental health biomedical research centre Announcement part of £816m investment in medical research by DH Cash will be split between 20 research centres with Oxford set to receive £12.8m A foundation trust has been named the country’s second mental health ...
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News
Providers could face 'mandated support' from regulator
Providers will be able to earn greater autonomy and less central oversight by meeting NHS Improvement monitoring targets Lowest band of regulation reserved for trusts in special measures requiring mandated support from the NHS Improvement NHS Improvement’s new single oversight framework published today Regulators will allow NHS trusts ...
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Hinchingbrooke names private partner for £150m building project
Plan says “strategic estates partnership” could secure £5m of recurrent income by letting property and managing land use Trust is seeking approval from Treasury and NHS Improvement Strategic estates partnerships are being closely watched by ministers as means for delivering NHS capital project A district general hospital has ...
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Stevens: Southern Health controversy 'undermined public confidence'
Simon Stevens says at “Southern Health, patients and families have been let down and public confidence undermined” Follows Katrina Percy resigning as chief executive but retaining salary NHS England chief executive says NHS “can’t justify examples of what can come across as self-serving behaviour” Mr Stevens warns it is ...