All Finance articles – Page 42
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NewsBuilding order of ‘new hospitals’ revealed as £550m consultancy deals announced
Projects in Dorset and Devon are set to be the first within the government’s New Hospital Programme to agree construction contracts.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: The ICS rebellion and exec diversity declines
NHS England has asked systems to ensure their financial plans break even this year – but this is easier said than done when many face deficits of over £100m.
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NewsSystems push back on NHS England’s ‘financial break even’ ask
Multiple health systems are pushing back on their financial targets for 2022-23 and seeking to negotiate more ‘realistic’ plans with NHS, HSJ understands.
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NewsMultiple trusts extend free parking despite government funding cut
Several systems and trusts have decided to extend their free parking offer for staff despite central government funding for the policy coming to an end this month.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: A painful recovery
On this week’s episode we explore the pressure points hindering the NHS’s recovery this spring.
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NewsNHSE tightens control over trusts’ tech procurement
NHS England has cut the number of procurement frameworks for digital and IT products by a third, as part of a purchasing shake-up.
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NewsMackey: cost-saving targets for trusts ‘not really possible’
The cost savings targets set for the most financially challenged trusts ‘probably aren’t really possible’, NHS England’s national director of elective recovery Sir Jim Mackey has warned.
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NewsFinance team at scandal trust was ‘under-staffed and unable to whistleblow’
An under-resourced finance department where staff did not feel they could blow the whistle on senior colleagues was a factor in enabling ‘intentional misstatement’ of a major acute trust’s financial position, HSJ has been told.
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NewsProcurement of PPE, diagnostics and medical devices to be in-housed by national agency
The national supply chain agency will bring management of significant areas of NHS spend in-house on a permanent basis in a major overhaul of its operating model, HSJ has been told.
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NewsGovt cuts £330m from NHS budget and gives it 13 priorities
The government has reduced the NHS revenue budget for 2022-23 by £330m, after the Treasury refused to fund the Department of Health and Social Care for additional ongoing covid costs, HSJ understands.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Inside the Shropshire maternity scandal
It’s been a sobering week for the NHS, with the long-awaited review of the NHS’s latest safety scandal and the annual Staff Survey both being published.
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NewsEvery ICS expected to break even in ‘harsh’ new regime
Every health and care system — including those carrying huge deficits going into the pandemic — will be told to deliver financial balance in 2022-23, according to draft guidance seen by HSJ.
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NewsView grows that NHS ‘must live within its means’ as satisfaction plummets
The view the NHS must deliver significant improvements within its existing budget has risen sharply, alongside a dramatic fall in public satisfaction, according to the most respected annual survey of attitudes towards the UK’s health and care services.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE pushes ‘private patient opportunities’ in leaked guidance
Official draft guidance has encouraged trusts to grow their ‘private patient opportunities’, despite facing huge backlogs of NHS work.
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NewsDischarge policy reviewed as NHSE warns ‘capacity may decrease’
Two national reviews are taking place into hospital discharge policy, it has emerged, amid major changes to funding and legislation.
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NewsChief executive of prestigious hospital loses whistleblowing case
The chief executive of one of England’s most prestigious private hospitals has lost her employment tribunal claim that she was dismissed for whistle blowing over patient safety issues.
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NewsFourth NHS agency to be led by City figure
The government agency that provides back-office business services across the NHS has appointed a former banker as its new chair.
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PodcastHSJ podcast: Rishi’s big asks of the NHS
NHS spending is being scrutinised more than ever, with trusts asked to double the amount of annual efficiency savings they make.
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NewsTech spend under pressure as NHSE told to ‘cut core funding’
The government has asked NHS England to reduce core NHS funding by hundreds of millions of pounds in 2022-23, NHSE revealed today.
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NewsJust a third of New Hospitals Programme staff say it is making good progress
Only a third of staff working on the government’s New Hospitals Programme believe it is making enough progress with some criticising its ‘inconsistent and slow’ decision making, HSJ can reveal.