All Finance articles – Page 327
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Lower qualified pathology workforce ‘could make 25 per cent savings’
The government’s pathology tsar has said the discipline could save 15-25 per cent of its costs by reducing the proportion of highly qualified staff it uses to perform junior tasks.
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Comment
Clinical services should do their bit for efficiency, as well as productivity
Although lower than other public sector departments, the NHS still has massive efficiency savings targets to meet. A good start would be to address value for money in clinical procedures, write Christopher Peters and Stephen Chadwick.
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HSJ Knowledge
On dodgy ground: much needed NHS estate works are being held up by the Health Bill's progress
The paused Health Bill has held up much needed improvement to facilities around the country, and while the plans intend to help patients more effectively in the long term, the welfare of communities is suffering now, argues Assura Group managing director for property Andrew Darke.
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GP-private healthcare link raises conflict of interest concerns
The government’s reforms have raised fears about the risk of financial conflicts of interest after a survey suggested that large numbers of the doctors on new commissioning boards will have links with private healthcare companies.
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Brakes on competition draw private sector complaints
Private sector players have accused the government of “very significantly” putting the brakes on its plans to extend competition from “any qualified provider” to new areas of the NHS.
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HSJ Knowledge
United front: why leadership is vital to a successful merger
A shared vision with three critical tests decided on by the various leaders involved is critical to calming the choppy waters of a merger, writes Graham Atkins.
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Government to scrap 2014 'drop dead' deadline for foundation trust status
NHS trusts will no longer be required to reach foundation status by a deadline of April 2014, according to the government policy statement issued this morning.
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Monitor's role to be softened in bid to quell competition fears
The government has backed proposals to strike Monitor’s duty to “promote competition” from the Health and Social Care Bill, and to give the NHS Commissioning board a mandate to determine how competition applies in the health service.
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HSJ Local
Specialised services spending risk at South West Essex
FINANCE: South West Essex PCT is at risk of not meeting its savings target for “volatile” specialised services spending, it has warned.
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Future Forum proposes to hand competition powers to Nicholson's commissioning board
The NHS commissioning board should be handed the power to set the rules for competition in the health service, the expert panel set up to examine the government’s health reforms has recommended.
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Private sector would refuse to recruit from NHS if forced to pay training costs - Forum
The government has been urged to reconsider proposals that would force the private sector to contribute to NHS training costs amid fears it will result in firms recruiting from overseas.
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Cancer patients to be hit by welfare reform
Government plans for welfare reform will plunge cancer patients into poverty simply “because they have not recovered quickly enough”, campaigners say.
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Public health funding argument 'is over'
A senior Department of Health official has given a strong indication that councils have lost the argument over ringfenced public health budgets and that the government will not turn on the issue.
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EU directive blocking trusts from clinical trials, says Confed
Managers are urging the European Commission to reduce the red tape they say is stopping trusts from entering the market for global clinical trials.
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Centralising blood services could help trusts achieve huge savings
The number of full service transfusion laboratories in England could be cut from 220 to just 30 if a system about to be piloted by NHS Blood and Transplant in partnership with NHS trusts proves successful.
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PFI 'barriers' to FT status affecting fewer than 10 trusts
Claims by more than half of the trusts that argued private finance initiatives were a barrier to their obtaining foundation trust status cannot be justified, an insider has revealed to HSJ.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: wistful thinking on PFI
Ask an NHS finance director what they hope will come out of the McKinsey review of 22 trusts with tricky private finance initiatives and they talk wistfully about a revised market forces factor – the calculation that determines any top-up paid for delivering services in a particular area.
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HSJ Knowledge
The importance of data in commissioning good care
The idea behind GP commissioning consortia is intended to improve quality of care. But without the right informatrion, consortia may well find commissioning as hard as anybody else. Ardentia founder Tom Mulhern explains.
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Comment
Media Watch: elderly care abuse revelations dominate discussion
The Daily Telegraph started the weekend with a rare morsel of good news for Andrew Lansley.
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Exclusive: dozens of trusts missed savings targets in 2010-11
Trusts missed 2010-11’s efficiency targets by nearly 10 per cent before even tougher demands came into force this year, an HSJ analysis reveals.