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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Why this year's planning round is going to be bloody
This week, the HSJ team look at money and what is coming for what is expected to be the toughest financial year for the NHS in a generation.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Tough talk on deficits
This week we take a closer look at Wes Streeting’s tough talk on NHS deficits – the health and social care secretary has told the NHS there can be no overspending without consequences.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Streeting’s deficit rhetoric won’t match reality
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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NewsTrusts cut thousands of non-clinical staff
NHS trusts cut nearly 9,000 posts between March and December 2024 as they try to balance the books, HSJ has learned.
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News‘Culture of overspending’ is over, NHS told
Ministers have said they will back NHS leaders to make “tough decisions”, including cutting services, as part of ending a “culture of routine overspending without consequences”.
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NewsElective funding ring-fence to be axed
The ring-fence around elective funding will be axed in 2025-26, officials have revealed.
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NewsWe’re not complacent over finances, NHSE insists
NHS England has accused an influential Parliamentary committee of “factual inaccuracies” after MPs criticised national NHS officials for “complacency” over financial planning.
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NewsElective recovery fund capped for rest of year
The amount of extra waiting list funding trusts can earn is to be capped in the remaining months of the financial year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsRevealed: All but three ICSs fall behind financial plans
A total of 39 of the 42 integrated care systems have fallen behind their financial plans, new figures reveal.
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NewsNHSE deputy to join ICB
One of NHS England’s national finance team is leaving to join an integrated care board.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: How to shift money out of hospitals
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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NewsFinance directors told to ‘be realistic’ in 2025-26 planning
NHS England’s chief financial officer Julian Kelly has called for greater realism from local leaders in next year’s financial planning round, warning they must urgently make “difficult” choices about what they can deliver with what will “feel like a real terms cut”.
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NewsNHSE chief denies local financial plans are ‘fantasy’
NHS England’s chief financial officer has denied it influenced trusts and systems to sign up to “fantasy” plans to paint the best possible picture of the service’s finances at the start of the year.
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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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NewsExclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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CommentNHS England slims down
NHS England has listened to Lord Darzi’s proposal to slim down the centre and is going on a hiring spree to make it happen, reports Julian Patterson
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE’s game of chicken with trusts’ cash
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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NewsRevealed: ICSs planning the largest deficits
The integrated care systems facing the biggest planned deficits in the year ahead are today revealed by HSJ research.
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NewsEleven ICSs warned of ‘significant concern’ about overspending
Around three quarters of England’s 42 integrated care systems have been unable to set balanced budgets for 2024-25, NHS England has revealed.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Bringing back capital punishment
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.