All Finance articles – Page 265
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News
Consultant contract talks could hinge on seven-day working
Employers’ representatives hope to begin negotiation of the medical consultant contract focused on enabling significantly more services to operate at weekends, HSJ has been told.
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News
Exclusive: 'Market' consulted about taking over parts of Mid Staffs
The special administrators of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust are to launch a “market engagement exercise” asking whether other providers - including in the private sector - would be interested in taking on its services, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
The NHS has its own currency crisis
The currencies that drive activity and behaviour in the NHS are rooted in the past
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News
Exclusive: Key Lib Dem backs government over crunch NHS competition vote
The Liberal Democrats’ health spokeswoman in the Lords has told HSJ she will have “no problem” asking her party to support the government in next week’s crucial vote on new NHS competition regulations.
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News
Exclusive: Monitor reveals £15.7m consultancy spend
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor has revealed it spent £15.7m on consultants in 2012.
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HSJ Local
Hundreds of jobs to go at Worcestershire acute trust
WORKFORCE: Hundreds of jobs will be lost at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust in the next four years as part of plans to cut costs.
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Comment
What happened to 'any qualified provider'?
AQP has been oddly absent from the competition debate
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HSJ Knowledge
CCGs and procurement in their first 100 days
The new groups have to hit the ground running
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News
NHS England plans to lead 'radical' service change
NHS England is planning to continue the health service’s current savings drive after 2015, and to recast it as a programme of “ambitious and radical” service change led by its area teams.
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Comment
Still no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’
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Blogs
Mid Staffs shows a foundation trust can go bust
Is it possible for trusts provide excellent care while staying within budget?
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Comment
FT mergers and competition: an HSJ Twitter chat
Join us for a discussion on the nature of competition in the NHS
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News
Government backs liabilities of national NHS property firm
The Department of Health has announced it will fund any income shortfalls of its newly created NHS property company, in a move widely interpreted as aiming to assure private sector investors about their assets.
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News
Mid Staffs placed in special administration
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been put into special administration by health sector regulator Monitor, it was announced this afternoon.
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News
Public wedded to NHS funding model
The public remain firmly committed to a free at the point of delivery NHS, but could potentially back charging patients in certain circumstances, according to a survey for the King’s Fund.