All Finance articles – Page 471
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News
Top-up payments are a lottery
I would like to thank HSJ for its coverage on top-up payments. The final decision will have huge implications for the health service. If top-ups were allowed, this would enable patients who can afford it to get rapid access to interventions that would not be normally available to all in ...
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News
Shortfall in care home funding
An extra £540m is needed to pay for residential care for older people, research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation predicts.
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Cancer patients cannot afford prescriptions
A third of cancer patients do not take their prescribed medicines because they cannot afford the prescription charge. Many do not know that buying prescription prepayment certificates would help with the cost.A survey by Macmillan Cancer Support found that 41 per cent of cancer patients did not know about how ...
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High Court decision on cancer drug
The High Court has overturned a primary care trust's refusal to fund cancer drug Revlimid for a cancer suffer with only months to live.
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DH publishes plans for failing NHS trusts
The Department of Health has published its proposals for managing failing NHS hospitals and trusts.
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Leader
Pick and mix accounting clouds surplus predictions
The NHS year-end surplus may not be quite as easy to predict as you might think.
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News
Surge of acute contracts puts strain on PCTs' spend targets
Primary care trusts are battling to stay clear of deficit as their finances come under pressure from a surge in secondary care work.Many PCTs overspent on their commissioning budgets for the first three months of the financial year and some are now looking to make savings in other areas to ...
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Leader
No amount of health funding will be an antidote to poverty
As the political parties mobilise for the conference season it is tempting to believe there is broad consensus about the future of the NHS. But three debates that go to its heart are raging.
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News
Personal health budgets
Anna Dixon's article on personal budgets cites US evidence on health savings accounts to suggest recipients of personal health budgets will forego care.
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Foundation trusts may fight private patient income cap
Foundation trusts could challenge the cap on earnings from private patients under EU law, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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NHS managers get surplus checklist
NHS organisations in London were issued with a 21-point checklist earlier this year to assist them in keeping their surpluses within a level acceptable to the Department of Health, HSJ has learnt.
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Nick Clegg rejects NHS insurance plans
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has chosen the launch of a report calling for primary care trusts to be replaced by a health insurance style system to flesh out policies on healthcare reform.
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Clinical coding errors
I refer to the article in which you list the trusts 'that got it most wrong', stating that up to £1bn of the bills sent to primary care trusts could be incorrect.
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PCTs dispute discrimination findings
A massive gap in spend between white patients and those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds has been exposed in figures given to HSJ.
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Comment
Michael White on economic populism
Off the Calais ferry and straight back into the political melee this week, I certainly didn't feel the quiet August break had done much for Gordon Brown's government's prospects of recovery.
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News
NHS inequalities row is shrouded in secrecy
The question of whether poor urban areas should continue to get the most funding is about fundamental NHS principles - so why is it being discussed behind closed doors? Sally Gainsbury reports
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Liberal Democrats voice support for top ups
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called for patients to be allowed to pay for extra treatment without losing the right to free NHS care.
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Private patient cap too restrictive - FT Network
The private patient cap is too restrictive and poses an obstacle to developing integrated services, the Foundation Trust Network has said in its submission to a Monitor consultation on the issue.
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Comment
Helen Bevan on NHS finance directors
As an NHS improvement leader I work with many staff groups. One group that was barely on my radar a year ago, but with which I now work with regularly, is NHS finance leaders.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health foundation trusts: F marks the spot
Just under half of mental health trusts have achieved foundation status. Helen Mooney looks at the options for those that may not be able to make the grade