All Finance articles – Page 244
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News
DH gives £100m working capital loan to property company
The Department of Health gave the NHS’s new property company a £100m working capital loan last summer amid concerns of a potential cash flow risk, it has emerged.
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HSJ Local
Plymouth Hospitals issues strict rules on spending
Plymouth Hospitals Trust staff have been warned they face disciplinary action if they deviate from rules restricting all non-essential spending.
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News
NHS England urged to act on 'chaotic' pathology mergers
NHS England has been urged to intervene to resolve the “chaotic vacuum” in pathology services resulting from a series of botched restructures.
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Hunt criticises 'unacceptable and unjustified' NHS salaries
The health secretary has raised concern about senior manager pay and may impose a limit on the number of arm’s-length body staff earning more than £100,000.
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Call for awareness drive on social care costs
More needs to be done to make people understand that social care in later life is not free, the former care minister has said.
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News
Opposition mounts to extension of special administrator powers
Government plans to widen the powers of trust special administrators face opposition both within and outside Parliament, HSJ has learned.
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News
Timeline: Bournemouth and Poole merger saga
How HSJ has covered Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals and Poole Hospital foundation trusts failed merger attempt.
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Comment
NHS England ‘land grab’ causes dismay
Providers are unhappy with specialised commissioning policy
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News
Audit urged for NHS property body as chair resigns
A Conservative MP has demanded a full audit of the organisation that runs the NHS property service after revealing it transferred funds for capital projects into day to day revenue budgets.
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Comment
‘Health tourism’ and the China syndrome
Properly handled, health tourism is a legitimate target that should not be attracting the outrage it has
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HSJ Local
Trust issues diktat over £40,000 daily overspend
FINANCE: The board of Plymouth Hospitals Trust has banned all non-essential spending and has ordered that all staff appointments are signed off by the director of finance in a bid to tackle a financial crisis.
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News
CSC disputes DH announcement on deal to end national IT programme
The Department of Health and healthcare IT company CSC have published contradictory statements about a deal designed to finalise contractual obligations which date back to the national programme for IT.
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NHS 'could be hit by immigration surcharge'
The NHS could end up having to foot the bill for an immigration surcharge imposed on foreign visitors to limit their impact on the NHS when it recruits staff from overseas, it has emerged.
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'Francis effect' leads to thousands more nursing posts
Hospitals are trying to increase the number of nurses and healthcare assistants working on their wards in a trend being attributed to a growing focus on patient safety in the wake of the Francis report.
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Blogs
Managers − always look on the bright side
Despite cuts to their budget, social services leaders appear to be relentlessly optimistic
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News
Details of £3.8bn integration fund revealed
The amount of progress clinical commissioning groups and councils make in working together next year will help determine their area’s share of the £3.8bn fund for health and care integration from 2015, it has been revealed.
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Burnham tells councils 'caveats' will be placed on health role
The shadow health secretary has warned councils would not be given “free rein” under his plan to put the lion’s share of NHS funding in local government’s hands.
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Labour to force vote on CCG allocations
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to force a vote in Parliament over plans to redistribute clinical commissioning group funding on the basis of age.
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Comment
New approach to enforcing rules and incentives would be a jolt
The NHS can follow the US’s lead on payment system
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News
OFT to rule on key pathology mergers as another project collapses
Fresh evidence has emerged of the impact competition probes are having on plans to reconfigure services after Office of Fair Trading investigations were cited as barriers to two major pathology reorganisations.