All Finance articles – Page 31
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: NHSE’s handling of Christie whistleblowing case faces judicial review
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‘Big four’ consultancy gets £9m deal to fix NHS procurement systems
The national procurement and logistics agency has signed a £9m contract with Deloitte to replace the ageing, complex and inflexible systems trusts use to order products.
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HSJ Interactive
Top CEOs roundtable 2023
HSJ brought together a panel of trust chief executives drawn from its annual list of the NHS’s Top 50 CEOs. Their discussion explored how trusts will cope with the renewed financial challenge and what values-based leadership means to them
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Trust CEOs decry ‘undeliverable’ and damaging financial plans
NHS trusts have committed to financial plans for 2023-34 without properly considering their consequences – with finance directors turning a blind eye to unrealistic forecasts under pressure from NHS England – some of the country’s top NHS chief executives have warned.
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Trusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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£4bn contract to run NHS logistics out to tender
The procurement for a new national logistics provider has started, with NHS Supply Chain looking to sign a deal with a firm worth up to £4.4bn and potentially running for nearly 12 years.
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Hunt demands ‘challenging’ productivity improvements in return for training cash
The chancellor has told HSJ he has agreed “ambitious improvements in productivity” with NHS leaders as part of negotiations for the long-term workforce plan.
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NHSE inks £775m contract for key Microsoft software
NHS England has signed a deal worth £775m to provide local NHS organisations with Microsoft products and software for the next five years.
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HSJ Partners
Financial improvement plans: Reinvigorating the basics and leveraging new opportunities through collaboration
Akeso, in partnership with Seagry consultancy, talks about approaches and key areas of opportunity to enliven the basics of financial improvement plans
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‘Once in a generation’ workforce plan promises 300,000 more NHS clinicians by 2036
The NHS will be funded to undertake the ‘biggest recruitment drive in health service history’, the government has pledged.
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NHSE boss calls for big rise in capital spending
The health service needs a significant increase in capital spending to bring it into line with advanced economies, NHS England’s head of estates has said.
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Hunt wanted 50pc cut to public health, says ex-PHE boss
Jeremy Hunt asked Public Health England to cut its budget by 50 per cent while he was health secretary, the agency’s former CEO has claimed.
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Mackey’s trust to fund bonus payments in ‘surprise move’
A trust led by a national director has agreed to make bonus payments to workers on its staff bank, despite there being ‘no obligation’ and the government refusing to fund it.
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NHS not ministers should decide future ‘new hospitals’, says DHSC chief
A permanent change in approach is needed for deciding which hospitals are built and when, and should be led by the NHS not politicians, the government’s ‘new hospitals programme’ boss has told HSJ.
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Comment
The covid inquiry: Surely we’ve suffered enough
Don’t imagine the covid inquiry will mean anyone being ‘held to account’, writes Julian Patterson.
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Revealed: The specialties with rocketing litigation costs
Litigation costs for specialties including intensive care, oncology and emergency medicine have rocketed by up to five times as much as they were before the pandemic, internal data obtained by HSJ reveals.
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£35m contract to keep controversial ‘data platform’ safe advertised by NHSE
NHS England has launched a search for a provider whose role will be to protect data privacy and security on its controversial ‘federated data platform’.
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Three trusts taken to High Court in £475m contract row
A private provider has accused three acute trusts of breaking procurement rules over how they handled bids for a contract worth up to £475m to supply them with managed pathology services.
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Comment
Social investment funding: a lifeline for the NHS
The potential for social investment has been demonstrated on an individual service level and now is the time for it to fuel ICS-wide innovation funding to support transformation and improve patient care, writes Katy Nex
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Comment
The lessons learned by health secretaries in the NHS's first 75 years
On the occasion of NHS’s 75th anniversary, Jennifer Dixon writes about former health ministers recognising NHS’s enduring popularity, chronic underinvestment, and political challenges as they emphasised public support, fairness, and the inefficiency of alternative models