All Finance articles – Page 340
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NewsBrakes 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 KnowledgeUnited 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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NewsGovernment 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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NewsFuture 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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NewsPrivate 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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NewsCancer 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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NewsPublic 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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NewsEU 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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NewsCentralising 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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NewsPFI '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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CommentSally 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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CommentMedia 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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NewsExclusive: 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.
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NewsRoyal College commissioning school receiving nearly £2m for GPs' training
The Royal College of GPs – which has heavily criticised the government’s NHS reform programme – has already been paid £1.5m to help teach GPs how to commission.
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Exclusive: FT income busts target as pay drives costs over plan
Foundation trusts took more than half a billion over-plan in income in 2010-11, a Monitor report seen by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ KnowledgeA guide to achieving maximum value from NHS estate
With the NHS and planning system changing so fast, there is no time like the present to engage with change to maximise capital value. Richard Baxter offers some guidance.
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NewsCalls for government action over Southern Cross future
The government will be urged to show leadership to help secure the future of staff and residents at Southern Cross care homes as the company struggles under mounting debts.