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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: How far does £22bn go?
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsNHSE desire to please govt forcing finance chiefs to agree undeliverable plans
One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.
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NewsFresh £900m raid on capital revealed in Budget small print
Close to £1bn has been raided from health capital funding this year to meet day-to-day pressures in tech and pay, documents published alongside the Budget reveal.
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News‘Urgent’ questions over NHS Budget deal
The Chancellor has announced above-inflation increases to NHS funding, although no agreement has yet been reached on what service levels must be achieved in exchange.
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NewsNew £100m pot for building upgrades announced
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a new £100m pot to fund upgrades to GP premises as part of a multibillion pound increase to the NHS’s capital expenditure in the government’s Budget.
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HSJ LocalICS with ‘decade-old deficit’ drops to worst financial tier
An integrated care board has been relegated to the lowest tier of NHS England’s financial management regime.
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NewsExclusive: No new funding for key Labour pledge, says NHSE document
Labour’s manifesto pledge to deliver 700,000 extra dental appointments is to be funded from within existing budgets in the current financial year, correspondence seen by HSJ suggests.
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NewsICS told it’s ‘top down’ and ‘lacks effective leadership’
An under-pressure integrated care system has been told it lacks “effective leadership” and is “too centralised and top-down” in a survey of partner organisations.
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NewsNHS given £1.5bn capital to boost elective recovery
The NHS will be given an additional £1.5bn in capital funding next year to spend on new surgical hubs and scanners, the Treasury has announced ahead of Wednesday’s budget.
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NewsICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.
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NewsRegion ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m
A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.
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CommentHow to bridge the NHS’s gulf on AI adoption
AI is shaping many aspects of our lives, yet the NHS is seemingly impenetrable to its advances – here’s how to close the gulf between policy and implementation
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NewsNHSE employing temporary workers on up to £900 a day
NHS England is employing temporary workers for several years on up to £900 a day, new figures show, well above the level at which trusts looking to bring in interim staff must secure central sign-off.
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NewsStaff at care scandal trust have ‘little left to give’ as spending controls bite
Staff at a scandal-hit trust feel “undervalued and without any autonomy” due to newly imposed financial controls, according to internal emails.
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NewsWinter pressures funding leads to ‘panic buying,’ says CEO
Last-minute national funding to ease winter pressures often leads to “panic buying” and is “not always well spent”, a trust chief executive has said.
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NewsICB accused of ‘attacking patient choice’
An integrated care system has been accused of “attacking patient choice” by allegedly “pressuring” eye care providers to refer more work within the NHS – amid moves nationally to bring more ophthalmology services in-house.
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CommentInvestment in technology and prevention has to be at the heart of the Budget
The upcoming budget will shape NHS funding for 2025-26, balancing immediate health needs with long-term investment in technology, prevention, and a healthier future economy, writes Anita Charlesworth
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NewsNHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high
The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.
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NewsRevealed: £18bn bid to complete promised ‘40 new hospitals’
The new hospitals programme has told ministers it needs nearly £6bn annual capital funding for three years to press ahead with building all promised schemes as fast as possible.
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NewsTrust in financial dispute with two ICBs
An ambulance trust has warned it may miss financial targets because it has failed to finalise some commissioning contracts halfway through the year.