All Finance articles – Page 40
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New procurement rules would bar poor performing suppliers
Government plans for new procurement rules would exclude suppliers with a history of poor performance as well as make it easier to award contracts based on ”social value”.
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NHSE to insist on ‘strong’ return of payment by results to drive elective activity
NHS England will insist on a ‘strong element of payment-by-results’ for elective work from April next year, as it plans to drop the emergency financial system it has operated since the start of the pandemic.
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Trusts delay controversial merger due to ‘operational pressures’
A large acute trust and small specialist trust have delayed plans to complete a controversial merger.
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Patient harm now ‘a continuing theme’, says cash-strapped trust
Incidents including a cardiac arrest where an ambulance took more than an hour to arrive and the patient died have prompted trust chiefs to suggest they cannot prevent patient harm under their current funding levels.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery Watch: Is the NHS making best use of private sector capacity?
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 bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Trusts complain of ‘frustrating’ delays to new hospitals programme
Two trusts have highlighted their frustration with the ‘delays and uncertainty’ over the government’s New Hospital Programme after being forced to slow down their projects amid funding concerns.
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NHS leaders accuse ministers of reneging on FT freedom deal
NHS leaders have accused the government of reneging on a deal to safeguard a key freedom for foundation trusts to determine their own capital spending.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: ICSs go for continuity candidates
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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NHSE-commissioned review to suggest overhaul of capital allocations
A review instigated by NHS England will suggest an overhaul to the way capital funding is allocated to local systems – which should favour those with more significant problems with their estate.
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NHS suppliers must use electronic invoices from April
Suppliers to NHS commissioners will have to use paperless electronic invoicing from April 2022, according to national leaders.
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Sustainability chief pledges to avoid ‘death by strategy’ in push for carbon net zero
National funding will be given to those health systems with the ‘best ideas’ on how to become more environmentally sustainable, the NHS’ net zero chief has told HSJ.
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Trusts must buy on ‘value’ not just ‘price’, says procurement chief
Trust leaders must become less pre-occupied with ‘price’ and think more about value and sustainability, according to the body representing the health procurement sector.
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Hospitals charity distributing less than 50pc of the money it has raised
A charity which says it is fundraising for 470 hospitals has admitted only £30,000 of the £128,000 it has raised is “being distributed” but says there is more to come.
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Fresh strategy for £3bn procurement spend announced
The bodies responsible for buying at least £3bn of goods and products for the NHS each year are planning a major overhaul of their operating model, according to a notice issued to the market.
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Exclusive: Watchdog says new hospital building programme is ‘unachievable’
A government infrastructure watchdog has raised serious concerns about the lack of progress made to build ‘40 new hospitals’ by 2030, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
ICSs could be forced to pool their budgets with councils
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Trust spent £2.1m on extra covid beds plan axed after two weeks
A trust had to pay £2.1m to a company it had hired to set up temporary beds at the peak of the first covid wave, despite cancelling the order two weeks later. East London trust pays £2.1m to company after extra covid beds plan scrapped London’s barely used Nightingale ...
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: Five go chief exec-ing
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Trusts face uncosted £4m rise in energy bills
Some NHS trusts are reporting huge hikes to their gas and electricity bills, with finance chiefs expecting increases of up to £4m in this financial year.
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NHS launches biggest central patient record programme since NPfIT
Seven trusts have been selected for a new centralised approach to buying major IT equipment in a bid to “accelerate” digitisation across the health service, HSJ has learned.