All Finance articles – Page 33
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News
Exit payments above £95k to require ministerial sign-off
Severance payments above £95,000 will require ministerial approval under new proposals unveiled by the government.
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News
Just four out of 1,100 lone worker alarms being used by trust workforce
A trust which rented 1,100 lone worker alarms has found just four were in use after a year.
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Trust ends deal with consultancy accused of ‘misconduct’ by Jacob Rees-Mogg
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust has ended its £6m contract with consultants Bain & Company after the government accused it of “grave professional misconduct” over its activities in South Africa.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: One of the worst examples of NHS procurement
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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Daily Insight
The Primer: Sorting it out
The Primer provides a rapid guide to the most interesting comment and analysis on the English health and care sector that has not (usually) appeared in HSJ.
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News
‘We can’t continue to fund the NHS forever’, says Babylon finance chief
The chief financial officer of digital provider Babylon Health has said the company has been a ‘victim of [its] own success’ and it cannot ‘continue to fund the NHS forever’.
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News
‘Short-sighted’ NHSE contract change ‘risks reducing GP access’
A national GP contract change by NHS England risks reducing out-of-hours access over winter, unless commissioners commit to budget cuts elsewhere.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: NHS England’s £2bn dilemma
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ finance correspondent Henry Anderson
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HSJ Local
CCG staff ‘crossed the line’ in ‘manipulating’ contract award
Three clinical commissioning groups have been fined after they “manipulated” a procurement process to award a £2m contract to a favoured supplier.
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News
Exclusive: Delays to pension payments after surge in retirements
The body which handles NHS pensions is struggling to process applications on time after a 50 per cent increase in retirements from the service.
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Comment
New research refund 'fantastic news' for trusts
NHS trusts can now claim back more of the costs involved in carrying out clinical research following a national policy change. Dr William van’t Hoff is calling for trusts to use this additional funding as an incentive to further support and embed clinical research delivery – benefitting their staff, patients ...
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Podcast
HSJ podcast: Crumbling services, but who’s in charge?
Hospital leaders have warned there is a lack of accountability in the NHS, adding this could undermine public and political trust in the service.
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HSJ Partners
ICSs are officially here, but what needs to be different for digital, data and tech?
The establishment of 42 integrated care systems ushers in an unprecedented opportunity to deliver wide ranging improvements in population health and care as well as wider system performance. If that potential is to be realised, digital and analytics will need to play a central role. How can ICS leaders grasp ...
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News
Londoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment
The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
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News
ICS chief agrees to pay back covid bonus
The chief executive of an integrated care board will return a bonus paid for her ‘response and management’ of the pandemic, following enquiries by HSJ about the payment.
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News
CEOs could get £30,000 bonus for joining troubled trusts
Senior managers could be paid one-off bonuses to take over the most troubled NHS organisations, according to draft proposals being considered by government and NHS England.
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News
NHSE tries to put £2.3bn cap on agency staff spend
NHS England is introducing a new ceiling on the amount spent within each integrated care system on agency staff — cutting it by at least 10 per cent in each area in one year — as part of a drive to find further savings across the health service.
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News
Test and Trace spent £450m on consultants
England’s Test and Trace system spent more than £450m on management consultants during the pandemic, UK Health Security Agency CEO Dame Jenny Harries has revealed.
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HSJ Local
NHSE pushes large London acute to join pathology network
NHS England is using the prospect of diagnostics funding to push a large London acute trust into joining a pathology network.
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HSJ Partners
Unlocking the potential of digital leaders
With an estimated need for over 30,000 digital leaders in the next 10 years, Paul Styler explains why the system needs to act soon to develop the educational capability and infrastructure to address this gap