All Finance articles – Page 17
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Exec paybill rose to £800k despite trust being deemed ‘too small’
A new NHS trust deemed ‘too small’ after taking on just £24m worth of services has reported a significant increase in spending on its executive team.
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Hospital whose rebuild was dropped faces ‘enforced closure’ risk
A trust that was inexplicably removed from the ‘40 new hospitals’ programme, despite being a top regional priority for capital funding, has been testing contingency plans for a ‘full or partial site closure’ due to problems with its main site.
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Trust needs £20m to deliver asks from Manchester bomb inquiry
Ambulance trusts are lobbying for tens of millions in additional funding to meet key targets set by the Manchester Arena bombing inquiry.
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Trusts miss out on £50m of pledged ‘net zero’ funds
Nearly a fifth of the capital funding allocated to the NHS for ‘net zero’ projects was never received by trusts, with at least two schemes prevented from going ahead due to a lack of flexibility in the scheme.
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‘It was as if we didn’t exist’ – shoe family’s harrowing tale
Underfunding and negligence may have been contributory factors as single mother loses family home, reports Julian Patterson
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NHSE must target cash-rich trusts for savings, as well as strugglers, says ex-DH boss
Regulators are trying to squeeze cost savings out of some of the most financially challenged trusts and should focus more heavily on organisations with healthier balance sheets, says a former Department of Health director.
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Trust outsources ‘dementia village’
An innovative “dementia village” hosted by an NHS trust has welcomed its first residents – but will no longer be run directly by the NHS as originally planned.
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ICS accused of imposing ‘woefully low’ overtime pay
An integrated care system’s new overtime ‘rate card’ has sparked a furious response from doctors who warned the “woefully under-market value” rates were directly undermining efforts to ensure safe staffing.
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Comment
The worst time to get ill in England?
The latest patient backlog numbers are a wake-up call we can’t ignore. An immediate solution to the eye care backlog across the UK’s hospitals is ready and waiting, argues Adam Sampson, chief executive of the Association of Optometrists – optician practices on our high street
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Cutting procurement ‘red tape’ will save £100m, says NHSE
NHS England has revealed plans to “cut red tape” in procurement by slashing the number of frameworks through which suppliers do business with the NHS.
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Ministers name 30 trusts receiving share of £250m fund
Ministers have named the 30 trusts which will receive a share of a £250m fund to increase urgent and emergency care capacity.
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‘Very targeted’ redundancies planned at NHS England
NHS England has said any further voluntary redundancies as part of its restructure will be offered in a “very targeted way”, as it has already seen many departures and needs to “protect public money and keep people in employment”.
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Babylon seeks to sell UK business
Babylon is looking to sell its UK business – including its 100,000 patient NHS GP practice – and may go into administration, it has announced.
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: ‘To err is human, to cover up is unforgivable’
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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Improve medicines use to ‘balance financial plans’, ICBs told
Integrated care boards must increase efforts to improve the effective use of medicines, in part to help systems ‘deliver balanced financial plans’, NHS England has said.
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Exclusive: Trusts accused of underpaying junior doctors for three years
Thousands of junior doctors could have been underpaid for up to three and a half years, potentially leaving trusts facing seven figure pay outs.
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National procurement chief leaves after four months
A senior NHS Supply Chain executive is abruptly leaving the organisation four months after he joined.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Has Lancashire missed a trick?
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
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Revealed: The trusts offering ‘BMA rates’ to doctors covering strikes
Around a quarter of acute trusts paid consultants premium rates to provide strike cover during the first two junior doctors’ walkouts, broadly matching the pay levels demanded by the British Medical Association’s ‘rate card’, HSJ research has found.
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ICSs miss financial plans by £340m after two months
Health systems missed their combined financial plans by more than £300m after just two months of the year, according to a report to NHS England’s board.