All Finance articles – Page 253
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NewsExclusive: Employers seek to link pay rise to seven-day working
Next year’s pay rise for NHS staff could be linked to changes in their working practices to help force more seven-day working, it has emerged.
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NewsMonitor warning on foundations' A&E performance
The number of NHS foundation trusts failing to meet the target for seeing patients within four hours of arriving at accident and emergency departments has doubled in the last year.
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NewsMost popular quality premium targets revealed
Improving care for circulatory diseases and reducing emergency admissions are the targets most commonly chosen by clinical commissioning groups to be linked to their income, research has found.
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NewsLamb: Directors could face poor care prosecutions
Individual directors on the boards of healthcare providers will face the threat of criminal prosecution for neglect or abuse of patients, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsSocial care spend falls by 2pc
Council spending on adult social care fell by 2 per cent last year, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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CommentPredicted wave of tenders refuses to arrive
Lack of TCS tenders is one of many miseries facing commissioners
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NewsSharp fall in trust confidence on savings targets
There has been a sharp decline in the confidence of trust finance directors that they will meet their annual cost improvement targets, according to the latest King’s Fund quarterly monitoring report.
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NewsRising cost of NHS IT 'fiasco'
The costs of the multibillion-pound national health IT programme abandoned by the government are set to continue rising significantly, MPs have warned. The Commons public accounts committee issued the warning as it branded the scheme one of the “worst and most expensive contracting fiascos” in the history of the public ...
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NewsRevealed: The commissioning groups planning huge underspends
More than 20 clinical commissioning groups are planning to underspend their budgets by at least double the required surplus target this year, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsLorenzo sweetener deal finds few takers
The Department of Health has signed off just six of the sweetened deals to take the Lorenzo electronic patient records system in exchange for £12m grant funding, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCaseload midwifery 'more cost-effective'
One-to-one maternity care before, during and after childbirth could save the NHS more than £300 per pregnancy, according to new research.
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NewsUPDATED: Monitor questions payment by results for mental health
The mandatory rollout of a national payment by results tariff for mental healthcare providers in 2014-15 has been dropped by Monitor, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBerwick review costs revealed
The Berwick review of patient safety in the NHS cost less than £100,000, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPersonal budgets mooted for mental health
Care minister Norman Lamb has said he would like to see mental health patients being given personal budgets to pay for care.
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NewsLamb reveals number of integration pioneers
Fifteen integrated care pioneer projects will be announced by the government within the next few months, health minister Norman Lamb has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Parking charges rise at North Staffs
FINANCE: Parking charges are set to rise at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s from 1 November for the first time in six years.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation emerges in CCGs' efficiency ambition
There is a 23-fold variation in the scale of clinical commissioning groups’ efficiency targets, with at least 11 groups planning to make savings of under 1 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Caroline Clarke: NHS must get better at measuring quality
The service needs to define quality and value