All Finance articles – Page 44
-
HSJ Local
Trust buys Nightingale hospital to help tackle elective backlog
A hospital trust has bought the site of its local Nightingale Hospital, because it wants to continue using it to help tackle the elective backlog.
-
News
Major providers’ £1bn takeover deal collapses
A takeover bid involving two of the largest private providers of NHS acute care has fallen through after the deal failed to gain enough support from shareholders.
-
News
Trust seeks ‘urgent financial support’ to meet demand for services
A trust has warned it needs ‘urgent financial support’ from its local integrated care systems to cope with unprecedented demand for children’s services.
-
News
Trust lost more than £360k over cancelled music festival
An NHS trust lost more than £360,000 after a music festival organised through a company owned by the trust was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
-
News
Shake-up of ‘new hospitals’ project after construction capacity concerns
The official leading the government’s flagship hospital building programme has admitted ‘the brakes have come on’ for some of the frontrunner projects, with some having to revisit their designs due to new requirements.
-
News
Talk to patients about end of life care and save £500m, NHS told
The NHS could save more than £500m a year if patients and clinicians had better quality conversations about care plans, a major review has found.
-
News
NHSE accused of shifting ‘the entire pitch’ on elective care recovery funding
Local systems will need to carry out more planned procedures to receive cash from the elective recovery fund following NHS England and Improvement’s decision to increase the activity thresholds required.
-
News
‘Scared’ patients left ‘unable to seek timely treatment’ by trust’s charging approach
A trust has apologised after an independent review found some of its patients were left feeling “uncomfortable, scared or unable to seek timely treatment” by its approach to charging for NHS treatment.
-
Comment
The nation's love for the NHS is a blessing and a curse
We need to move spending and activity within our health system away from crisis provision and into communities, where health can be created, and not just managed, notes Jessica Studdert
-
News
Trust considers ‘replacing or rebuilding’ hospital due to risky roof beams
A hospital with a roof containing beams described as a ‘significant safety issue’ could be rebuilt or replaced rather than repaired, at a likely cost of several hundred million pounds.
-
HSJ Local
Flagship public-private alliance faces major delays and row over ‘power and money’
A £440m community services contract was due to be handed over to a new provider alliance this month, but the partners have failed to agree contractual terms and predicted it could take a further 18 months to do so.
-
News
NHS invites bids for £10bn diagnostic programme
A multi-year framework agreement worth up to £10bn to provide services at around 150 planned new community diagnostic hubs is being set up by NHS England and Improvement.
-
News
Government reveals plan to bring more stability to NHS pensions
The government is consulting on plans which would bring more stability to public sector pensions, including those in the NHS.
-
News
NHSE suspects trust managers abused position and acted in their own interests
NHS England/Improvement has set out suspected major governance failings, and a breach of the management consultancy cap, by an acute trust.
-
News
Revealed: NHSE plan to drive change in £17bn ICS procurement systems
NHS England will intervene to provide ‘extensive’ support to those health systems that must upgrade their procurement functions to meet new operating standards, according to internal documents seen byHSJ.
-
News
‘More collaborative’ lawyers see legal action against trusts ‘fall significantly’ during pandemic
Legal action resulting from alleged care failures by NHS trusts has been ‘significantly’ lower during the covid pandemic, according to the NHS’ disputes body.
-
News
Multimillion-pound contract extension for Test and Trace staff ahead of next wave
The Department of Health and Social Care has extended two contracts for contact tracers with outsourcing giants Serco and Sitel by six months for an additional cost of £168m.
-
Comment
What HIV care can teach us about treating long covid
To successfully rehabilitate long covid patients, we should learn from existing best practice in long-term conditions care such as HIV, writes Charlotte Augst
-
News
Multiple reports of problems with new payment and pension system
There have been multiple reports of problems with a new pension and payment system introduced for GPs.
-
HSJ Local
Hospital brings cleaning and catering in-house to ‘support minority ethnic communities’
An acute trust has brought their cleaning and catering contracts back in house to boost workforce equality and support staff from minority ethnic communities.