All Finance articles – Page 245
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BlogsWe didn't need all those staff after all
Efficiency drive or purge: where does outsourcing services lead us?
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CommentPayment system reform is essential to better care
A new model can support community based care
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NewsDrug firm fined for care homes 'cartel'
A pharmaceuticals company is to be fined more than £380,000 over a cartel arrangement in which it carved up some of a multimillion-pound market in prescription drugs for care homes with a rival.
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SupplementsFacing up to home truths
Virtual community wards can help patients reap the benefits of discharge from hospital − and offer potentially big savings to the NHS − as a project in Liverpool has demonstrated
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NewsClash over allocation of £3.8bn integration fund
Department for Communities and Local Government officials are battling for a £3.8bn health and social care fund to be weighted more heavily towards deprived areas, in order to address criticisms that cuts have hit these places hardest, HSJ sister title LGC has reported.
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CommentAre GP commissioning reforms logical?
There is dissatisfaction with arrangements for commissioning GPs
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CommentGetting the money right matters most to patients
NHS England can deliver better specialised care
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NewsNHS England 'shouldn't beg for money'
NHS England should not “become an agency that begs for more money for business as usual”, Sir Malcolm Grant has said.
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NewsNHS funds will subsidise councils' services, CCG leaders believe
Mandatory budget pooling with councils will improve care outside hospital, local commissioning leaders believe.
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NewsFlory: Commissioning uncertainty hitting trusts' finances
Unpredictable financial flows caused by unsettled commissioning structures are causing problems for trusts, according to Trust Development Authority chief executive David Flory.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Serco chief admits mistakes
Outsourcing giant Serco underestimated how long it would take to restructure community health services in Suffolk, its health managing director has told HSJ.
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NewsDH paid £1.5m to financial advisers on blood company sell-off
The Department of Health paid £1.5m to the financial advisers who acted for the government in the sale of the majority stake in Plasma Resources UK, the blood products company.
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HSJ KnowledgeGPs should overcome their suspicions about telehealth
One GP shares how it has reduced workload and improved care
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HSJ Local
North Tyneside CCG in deficit
FINANCE: North Tyneside clinical commissioning group is showing a year to date deficit of £278,000 as of 30 September 2013, according to board papers from its November governing body meeting.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Integration pioneers among winners from £260m technology fund
Three plans to join up patient records across a number of health and social care organisations are among 135 projects to have secured a share of NHS England’s £260m technology fund.
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NewsCommunity providers urge Monitor to divert resources from acute sector
Community providers have urged Monitor to support the development of new payment systems which will take investment away from the acute sector.
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NewsKnee, hip and eye ops 'rationed'
Surgery for knees, hips and eyes is under pressure across the NHS, with evidence of rationing to save money, a report suggests.
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SupplementsStaying safe in an age of austerity
Cutbacks mean protecting people with mental health problems is tougher than ever
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NewsChancellor signals further pay restraint
The chancellor used his autumn budget statement to warn of public sector pay restraint beyond 2015.