All Finance articles – Page 50
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NewsTrust 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.
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HSJ LocalFlagship 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.
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NewsNHS 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.
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NewsGovernment 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.
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NewsNHSE 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.
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NewsRevealed: 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.
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‘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.
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NewsMultimillion-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.
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CommentWhat 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
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NewsMultiple 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.
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HSJ LocalHospital 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.
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HSJ LocalTrust pleads for cash advance to fix ‘UK’s most cramped A&E’
An acute trust with the ‘most cramped and limited emergency department in the UK’ has warned delaying promised capital funds will mean treating patients in unsuitable facilities until 2030.
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NewsNHS England will demand ‘tougher’ financial savings from September
NHS England will ask health systems to make ‘tougher’ savings in the second half of the financial year, in anticipation of conversations with the Treasury about future funding.
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NewsICSs asked for ‘fully staffed’ long covid plans by mid-July
NHS England has asked integrated care systems to develop ‘fully staffed’ long covid treatment plans in the next month, and is providing £70m to enable them to do so.
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CommentSpend big and go slow on re-organisation: the secret to fixing waiting times
As health and social care grapples with post-pandemic challenges, a look back at the effect of the original Wanless report released 20 years ago reveals some things are still the same and some radically different, writes Nicholas Timmins
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NewsTreasury sign-off now required for all NHS payoffs
The government has tightened the approval process for special severance payments so that ministerial approval is required for exit packages over £100,000 and Treasury sign off needed for any agreement
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NewsHancock: ‘no evidence that a shortage of PPE led to anybody dying of covid’
The official estimate of the number of health and social care staff to have died from coronavirus during the pandemic now stands at around 1,500, Matt Hancock told a Parliamentary committee today.
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CommentLetter from Scotland: A more generous social care system
In his regular dispatch from north of the border Henry Anderson discusses the obstacles to the pledge of making social care free at the point of use in Scotland
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HSJ LocalLarge ICS to hand billions to acute ‘provider collaborative’
The provider collaborative for Greater Manchester is likely to be assigned the bulk of the area’s acute care funding, according to senior leaders in the region.
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HSJ Local‘40 new hospitals’ trust puts new IT system ahead of building
An acute and community trust, which has been allocated money as part of the “40 new hospitals” programme, is prioritising buying a new electronic patient record ahead of rebuilding its estate.