All Finance articles – Page 300
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Comment
'There is inherent value in high quality outcomes data'
Patient outcomes can provide value no matter what the NHS looks like.
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News
Ethics expert urges health service to consider losers when cutting costs
The NHS needs to think more about who is being harmed by decisions as it battles to reduce costs, a leading researcher has said.
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News
NHS 'to have 2,800 consultants more than it needs'
The NHS could end up with more fully trained hospital doctors than it needs - and potentially an increased wage bill - unless it makes changes to the way they are trained and used, the Centre for Workforce Intelligence has said.
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Leader
Government won't enjoy efficiency gained from public sector borrowing
Can efficiency be achieved through increased public spending?
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Comment
David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
Rather than distracting from the NHS efficiency challenge, the Health Bill could help achieve it, writes David Kerr.
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News
Healthcare trust hopes to nationalise second-ever PFI hospital
The foundation trust poised to take over one of England’s first ever private finance initiative hospitals hopes to renationalise it, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: PFI bailouts are a sign of things to come
Those who are worried that the current top-down reconfiguration of the NHS will be the last of its kind received some good cheer last week, when the seven lucky recipients of its £1.5bn private finance initiative bailout scheme were announced.
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News
Debt cap proposed for private providers to NHS
Monitor has proposed to set a cap on the level of debt carried by any organisation providing essential healthcare services to the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
How productivity and efficiency benefit from focusing on utilisation
Dr Angus MacDougall, director, Zircadian
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News
DH sets aside £617m for redundancy and restructuring costs
The Department of Health has announced £617m has been put into a contingency fund for NHS reform redundancy payments and restructuring costs during 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Circle faces £10m hole in Hinchingbrooke budget
FINANCE: Circle will have to cut costs at Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust by 10 per cent if it is to break even next year, it has emerged.
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News
Exclusive: community trusts dispute asset transfers with PCTs and DH
Plans to transfer NHS properties to community service providers have stalled amid an ongoing dispute between trusts and the Department of Health, and claims of irrational behaviour by commissioners.
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News
Revealed: CCG funding gulf could 'destablise services'
The first analysis of the budgets set to be given to clinical commissioning groups shows huge variation and has sparked concern about services being destabilised by a shortage of cash.
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HSJ Knowledge
How to prioritise disinvestment in support services
A tool to help assess disinvestment in support services can help organisations validate their difficult decisions in this area, as Marion Bain, Hester Ward and Simon Belfer explain.
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Comment
'New insights could help CCGs be clear on population health services'
Learning from medical groups in the US could show the way for CCGs to develop practices that deliver better quality services for their population’s health, suggests Tim Riley.
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News
Translation services costing NHS £60,000 a day
The NHS spend on translation and interpretation services is £60,000 a day, according to a report.
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News
Reform cuts costing 6,000 nursing posts, Labour warns
Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could pay to prevent the loss of 6,000 nursing jobs, Labour claims.
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News
Government estimates central bail-out of seven trusts will cost £1.5bn
The government has estimated that bailing out hospital trusts with large PFI repayments could cost £1.5bn.
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News
CQUIN and CQC quality results don't match, report finds
Trusts are improving the patient experience in areas where they receive financial incentives while neglecting others, a study suggests.
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News
Revealed: all but six of London's non-FT hospital trusts unviable by 2014-15
Only six of London’s 18 non-foundation hospital trusts will be viable in their current form in 2014-15, HSJ can reveal.