All Finance articles – Page 259
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CommentNo jam tomorrow for the NHS
The service won’t radically change if there is no chance of success
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Regional hospitals push for funding equality with London
A group of regional teaching hospitals is pushing NHS England to guarantee its members the same level of financial support as their London counterparts receive under the Project Diamond programme, HSJ has discovered.
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HSJ KnowledgeOutsourcing: Time to realise the benefits
The compelling case to outsource some NHS activities
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NewsScottish Tories call for action on dementia
The Scottish government needs to be prepared for an “intensifying” dementia crisis, Tories have said.
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NewsOFT probe could rachet up pressure on health IT providers
The Office of Fair Trading investigation into the public sector IT market could put fresh pressure on leading NHS providers to give trusts more flexibility on price and services, IT experts have told HSJ.
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NewsKelsey: NHS faces £30bn funding gap by 2020
The health service faces a £30bn funding gap by 2020, a major NHS England report due to be published next week will reveal.
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CommentThe NHS and the public both need a culture change
Public health is the NHS’s biggest challenge now
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DH paid consultants £73,000 to prepare official for MPs' grilling
The Department of Health spent more than £73,000 to prepare a senior official for a single appearance at the Public Accounts Committee.
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NewsSecond wave of community budgets announced
A second wave of areas adopting community budgets, bringing together funding for local public services, has been announced by communities secretary Eric Pickles.
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NewsDorrell warns 'Nicholson challenge' will remain in place
Health bosses will have to keep pursuing efficiency and savings after the next general election, the chair of the Commons health select committee has told MPs.
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Growth of payment by results 'unsustainable', says Monitor director
The past decade’s rapid expansion in the number of nationally set “payment by results” prices for NHS services is unsustainable - and “may already have gone too far”, Monitor’s pricing director has told HSJ.
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NewsAnalysed: The reform of payment by results
In the HSJ Briefing week we examine the proposals for changing NHS payment systems.
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NewsOFT to probe health service IT market
The Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation which will examine the health service IT market.
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NewsCuts threaten councils' viability, says LGA chief
Some councils could cease to exist under the pressures of the latest round of spending cuts.
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CommentThe government double counts its chickens
There are two ways to see the coalition’s social care plan
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NewsHunt considering legislation over regulation of provider mergers
The health secretary is concerned about the role of national competition regulators in relation to NHS provider mergers, and could legislate to change their role, he has said.
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CommentMichael White: an end to health tourism?
The government is making hay from plans to charge foreign NHS visitors
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NewsCCGs could get two year allocations
NHS England is considering giving clinical commissioning groups two year allocations from 2014-15, to enable them to transform services and plan efficiency gains over a period of more than a single year, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to obtain public value in procurement
Challenging traditional methods of healthcare procurement