All Finance articles – Page 483
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Find the funds to keep violence in check
Uniquely among the main care disciplines, mental health services routinely have to manage a triangle of potentially violent relationships: patients attacking staff, patients attacking each other and - when it comes to restraining aggression - staff using force on patients.
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Sophie Christie on the Lucentis drug controversy
The latest media celebration of how terrible the NHS is gathers pace. The press has been reporting that people are going blind because they are being refused a drug (as opposed to going blind because they have a degenerative disease). Yet the fourth estate seems to be missing a far ...
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Training cuts could stifle talking therapy
A government pledge to make 'talking therapies' more available is being jeopardised by higher education funding cuts, training providers have claimed.
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Trust defends repainting to greet prince
Birmingham Children's Hospital foundation trust has defended using government funding to repaint hospital wards and a conservatory used by patients and visitors ahead of a royal visit.
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HSJ Knowledge
Pension changes save employers £430m a year
Pension scheme changes that were agreed between NHS Employers and NHS trade unions will save employers £430m a year, according to a government actuary report published in December.
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal pay claims
Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Equal pay claims
Employers should already be aware that all equal pay claims involving a legal challenge to Agenda for Change have been stayed by order of the Tribunals. This order, however, applies only to the part of the claim involving the challenge to Agenda for Change. Employers should consult with their lawyers ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Review of unsocial hours payments
The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.
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HSJ Knowledge
Review of unsocial hours payments
The NHS Staff Council is recommending its proposals for a new system of unsocial hours payments to the Department of Health.
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Monitor takes third way on private patient income
The foundation trust regulator Monitor has revealed it will take action in response to the threat of a judicial review over its guidance to trusts on expanding private patient work.
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Funding for Scottish NHS boards rises to £8bn
Funding for NHS boards in Scotland will rise to £8bn next year, health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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Guidance on reference costs collection
A document has been released outlining the requirements for the 2007-08 reference costs collection.
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DH publishes costing manual
The Department of Health has published a manual setting out the principles and practice of NHS costing.
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HSJ Knowledge
Alan Maynard on hard questions for NICE
Everyone accepts that resources are scarce and that rationing in the NHS is ubiquitous. Rationing involves depriving patients of care from which they might benefit and would like to have. The most explicit instrument for rationing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the National Institute for Health and Clinical ...
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Six firms shortlisted for £80m NHS Choices contract
Six companies have been shortlisted to run the Department of Health's NHS Choices website, HSJ can reveal.
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Michael White on social care's big year
This is a big year for social care, possibly the biggest for a generation, says minister Ivan Lewis whenever he gets the chance. 'We've got to get it right.'
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Who foots the bill: establishing responsibility for patient care
Delaying admission while PCTs decide who should pay disrupts care and adds to bureaucracy. Should we look to local government for guidance? Lynn Eaton reports
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Unison takes Monitor to court in wake of income cap silence
Unison has launched judicial review proceedings against foundation trust regulator Monitor in a bid to stop trusts using arm's-length organisations to expand private patient work.
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Scotland's personal care policy questioned
Scotland's flagship free personal care policy needs to be better funded and managed if it is to work in the future, the public spending watchdog warned last week. A report from Audit Scotland reveals budget shortfalls and ambiguities in the way the policy was implemented.
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Agency staff overpaid, claim Conservatives
Agency staff - including managers, finance staff and nurses - are being paid inflated hourly wages, the Conservative Party has claimed.