All Finance articles – Page 27
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Comment
'Trusted' NHS must bring R&D benefits to the disadvantaged
Realignment of R&D investment could generate a better return on R&D investment to UK plc by improving access to innovative medicines, reducing variations in health outcomes, reengaging people with the labour market, and improving healthy life expectancy, write Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard and James O’Shaughnessy.
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News
Barclay orders ICSs to publish ‘organograms’ by 6 January
The health secretary has told integrated care systems to publish a breakdown of staffing numbers and costs so the “public and those on the frontline understand how money is spent”.
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Comment
NHS and social care need to learn from each other
The fifth in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Former NHS manager Nichola Stefanou shares three main takeaway lessons from her experience of working across both health and social care
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HSJ Partners
How decision intelligence can help the NHS do more with less
Faculty’s decision intelligence is a new field of technology designed to use data for better decision making, reduce spending, and improve patient outcomes.
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News
Building firm agrees £100m settlement for hospital ‘defects’
A construction firm has agreed to pay around £100m to an NHS trust after structural defects were found at one of its hospitals, HSJ understands.
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News
New theatres seven years late after trust ends novel device supplier deal
A hospital trust faces a long delay to a major capital project after pulling out of an unusual partnership with a medical device supplier.
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News
Neighbouring trusts placed in ‘special measures’
NHS England has moved two Devon trusts into its successor for the special measures regime, meaning all of the county’s acute trusts are now in the bottom tier of the oversight framework.
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Comment
ICSs should prioritise not for profit social care
The first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Professor Rayner, a regular national and international speaker, shares her thoughts on why social care should be for people, not for profit
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Expert Briefing
Patient Safety Watch: Clear signs of extreme pressure
Following Jeremy Hunt’s appointment as chancellor, HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch trustee James Titcombe.
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News
Ambulance firm collapses
A rapidly-expanding private ambulance firm which was working with two NHS trusts has gone into administration.
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Comment
The return of PbR threatens innovation
NHS management cannot just be about managing during ‘normal times’. It must be adaptive and capable of meeting future challenges, writes Louella Vaughan
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News
NHSE cuts £1bn from cancer, maternity and primary care funds
NHS England is raiding a national fund earmarked for improvements in cancer, maternity care and other priority services by up to £1bn this year, to pay for deficits elsewhere, and will cut it by a similar amount in 2023-24, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Government's hospital fabrication plan relaunched
In the latest (and only) development in the new hospitals saga, the government is blaming circumstances beyond its control for a small change of plan, writes Julian Patterson
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HSJ Local
Trust boss ‘depressed’ by NHSE spending crackdown
The chair of an acute trust has criticised NHS England’s new spending curbs, saying they make her “depressed” and significantly hamper the organisation’s ability to take strategic decisions.
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News
Trusts pursue tech firm for millions in cyber attack compensation
NHS trusts are seeking to recover millions of pounds from their electronic patient record supplier after months of disruption caused by a cyber attack.
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News
Trust no longer faces ‘very serious’ finance problems after five years
A teaching hospital trust has been moved out of the lowest finance performance band, five years after being placed in special measures for running up a £130m deficit.
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News
Liquidators for failed PFI provider launch court case against trust
One of England’s largest mental health trusts is embroiled in a multi-million-pound legal battle with its former private finance initiative provider.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: New ICS chief targets ‘immoral’ costs
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
Chief of under-fire agency: Progress ‘will never be at the speed I want’
NHS Supply Chain’s chief executive has defended his agency against recent criticism as it launches the procurement of a new digital commercial platform that should be a step-change in its interactions with trust procurement teams.
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News
NHSE exploring state-owned provider to replace diagnostic outsourcing
NHS England is assessing the viability of establishing an NHS-owned consortium to bring some of the diagnostic work currently being done for profit in the private sector back into the health service.