All Finance articles – Page 486
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Inside track: finance - what's on managers' minds this week
'What we don't need is more negative images perpetuated by those at the centre'
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No fence for LINks
Funding for local involvement networks will not be ringfenced, the government has announced. In its response to consultation to its July proposal to establish the networks, the Department of Health said that funding to local authorities would be 'allocated as a targeted but not ringfenced grant'.
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MPs slam health ministers' financial failures
Ministers' failure to get a grip on NHS finances last year led to a £570m net deficit in England, according to MPs.
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Minister unveils social enterprise start-up fund
A £73m social enterprise fund will be given to start-up social enterprises in health and social care, according to health minister Ivan Lewis.
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LIFT eight times more expensive, MPs told
Primary care trusts are paying up to eight times as much per patient for GP surgeries built by local improvement finance trusts, a report from the Commons public accounts committee has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Turnaround tales from the edge
The second in our three-part series on turnaround success stories shows how three more trusts took radical action to stop the rot
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Non-execs step down from troubled trust
Three non-executive directors have stepped down at a trust beset with financial problems and controversy over possible service changes.
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Moving down the line to financial stability
The recent merger of two acute trusts hints at things to come as struggling organisations are forced to re-examine their options. Chris Ham surveys the new structural landscape of the health service
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DoH opts out of traffic light rating for PCTs
The Department of Health has decided not to give primary care trusts an overall traffic-light rating at the end of fitness for purpose assessments.
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SHAs slash training fund for doctors
Training of doctors is at risk because strategic health authorities cut training budgets by millions of pounds last year, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Conservative Party.
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Michael White: junior doctors
'Hewitt would have watched footage of Cameron being cheered by a throng of angry junior doctors with some alarm'
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Patient top-up fees on rise, say doctors
Patients are increasingly having to pay top-up fees for private care because of budget cuts in the NHS and long waiting times, according to a report by pressure group Doctors for Reform.
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Simon Stevens on a summer of discontent
'So as we head into TUC and party conference season, by comparison things actually look pretty tame here. Part of the problem is the way international health comparisons are used - and abused.'
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HSJ Knowledge
International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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ISTCs: wave three under way despite doubts
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with wave two of its independent sector treatment centre programme despite scant evidence of value, HSJ understands.
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.
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Deficits 'symbolic' of wider trouble
Financial failure in NHS institutions reflects a wider malaise, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Noel Plumridge on disinvestment and decluttering
What would NHS managers dump on the hospital lawn ready for the crusher or eBay?
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Diagnostics deal delayed by five months
A £257m contract with an independent company to provide 450,000 diagnostic procedures a year may not start until September, five months behind schedule.
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Turning curves
In the first part of our series on organisational turnaround, HSJ writers quiz three NHS trusts on how they fought their way back from the brink of financial Armageddon