All Finance articles – Page 298
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Conflicts of interest Health Bill amendments agreed
Cross-party pressure in the House of Lords on strengthening clinical commissioning group governance will be reflected in further amendments to the Health Bill.
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NHS to extend HIV care to overseas visitors
Overseas visitors to Britain are to be offered free HIV treatment on the NHS for the first time.
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Government told NHS needs competition
The government must push for greater competition in providing services, a thinktank has demanded.
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Finance director appointed to commissioning board
A strategic health authority’s finance director has been given the top finance post at the NHS Commissioning Board.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to get better value for money from psychiatric care units
High cost, low volume and long admissions: Julian Walker and colleagues explore the challenge of evaluating treatment costs for patients in medium secure psychiatric units.
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MPs reject healthcare cost statement plans
Proposals to issue yearly statements on people’s individual NHS healthcare costs have been voted down by MPs.
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GPs overpaid millions for 'ghost patients'
Doctors have received millions of pounds in payment for patients who have moved practice, died or been forced to leave the country, according to a new report.
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NHS estate savings could reach £2bn, report claims
The amount of underused space in the NHS estate has dropped by more than a third over the past three years, according to a report by a leading property consultancy.
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Trusts refusing to release doctors for leadership work
Doctors are struggling to gain permission from trusts to undertake nationally important policy and leadership work, according to senior medical figures.
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'Low priority treatments should not let commissioners cut corners'
Setting the wrong clinical priorities?
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Taking up the Dorrell challenge? It's the money, stupid
There remains a worry that the government’s efficiency drive is still focused on short term savings that may not ultimately deliver the benefits to patients it claims, writes King’s Fund chief economist John Appleby.
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Council plans £100m loan to buy out foundation's PFI contracts
A local authority is in negotiations to lend up to £100m to a foundation trust seeking to buy out its private finance initiative contracts, HSJ has learned.
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Exclusive: Most troubled trust could be allowed to go bankrupt
The most financially troubled hospital trust in England could effectively be allowed go bankrupt and see its work redistributed between the independent sector and other trusts.
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Private sector competition 'leaves NHS with more costly patients'
Competition between NHS and private providers has seen the NHS left with the more expensive and complex cases, new research has claimed.
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NHS 'under-estimates' the cost of eye disease
Older patients may be missing out on sight-saving treatment because the NHS has seriously under-estimated the prevalence and cost of elderly eye disease, claim specialists.
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Competition watchdog clears Trafford Healthcare takeover
STRUCTURE: The NHS competition watchdog has approved Central Manchester University Hospitals’ proposed takeover of Trafford Healthcare Trust, the hospital known as the “birthplace of the NHS”.
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DH: hospitals must be fined for readmissions caused by others
Hospitals will be fined for emergency readmissions in 2012-13 even if they can prove that they are not responsible for them, according to rules published by the Department of Health this afternoon.
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CCGs must pay for NHS office space from running cost allowance
Clinical commissioning groups have been instructed to base themselves in existing NHS buildings – most of which are to be taken over by the Department of Health’s new property company – and pay for them out of their running cost allowance.
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DH advisers paid 'as companies' to reduce tax
Twenty-five Whitehall advisers who shared salaries of more than £4m were paid through limited companies, it has been reported.