All Payment by results (PbR) articles – Page 14
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CommentNoel Plumridge on cutting the NHS cost base
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines displacement activity as “the performance by an animal of an act inappropriate for the stimulus or stimuli that evoked it.
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News
One in five PCTs overspent as SHAs predict cash freeze
There has been a significant deterioration in the NHS’s finances, with more than a fifth of primary care trusts reporting overspending.
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NewsDemand management fails as trusts soak up PCT cash
Primary care trusts have failed to control demand for hospital services by transferring care into the community, research from the Audit Commission has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeClinical coding with confidence
Accuracy is essential in clinical coding not just to operate payment by results but to pursue quality and improvement with success, says Helen Mooney
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NewsUK GPs top financial incentive table
GPs in the UK are more likely to receive extra financial incentives than those from a list of 10 other developed countries, according to a report.
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NewsHinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
East of England strategic health authority has advertised for a franchisee to take over deficit-hit Hinchingbrooke hospital.
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NewsTories pledge marginal pricing under PbR tariff
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has promised the payment by results tariff would allow “marginal pricing” under a Conservative government.
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NewsTories need clear vision and a stronger message on health
The Conservatives have pronounced themselves the party of reform but are too wedded to the status quo. Andrew Haldenby argues they need to spend more energy advocating change
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NewsDH eyes patient cap for new tariff rules
NHS hospitals face a limit on the number of patients they will be paid to treat next year, HSJ has learned.
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CommentAndrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform
Competition, choice and clinician power: the shadow health secretary lists the ingredients that he would use to make NHS outcomes the best in the world
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NewsHonour NHS pay deal, say NHS Employers and DH
The Department of Health and NHS Employers have recommended that there should be no review of the agreed NHS staff pay settlement for 2010-11.
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NewsAlan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has attacked Andy Burnham’s decision to move away from competition and make the NHS the “preferred provider” of services.
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NewsPatient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?
The health secretary’s promise of a greater focus on patient experience has the approval of NHS leaders - as long as it is done properly, reports Rebecca Evans
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NewsAndy Burnham told to 'take care' over paying for quality
The government’s announcement that it would incorporate greater measures of quality into payment by results has been welcomed.
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NewsAndy Burnham warns NHS managers not to conduct 'mini spending reviews'
NHS managers must not conduct their own “mini spending reviews” in advance of political decisions about NHS funding, the health secretary has warned.
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NewsDH to review ‘penalty’ for day case payments
The Department of Health is to review the way day case patients are funded under the payment by results tariff.
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News'Organic' reduction in PCTs under Tories
The number of primary care trusts in England could be significantly reduced under Conservative health plans, HSJ has learnt.
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Blogs
PbR: A target by any other name...
PbR as an abbreviation now lends itself to a much clearer redefinition for the providers of healthcare services in NHS England – ‘Patients bring Revenue’.
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Blogs
Healthcare = customer care
It is Saturday morning, I am on call and working at my desk on lingering clinical work after the ward round, awaiting blood results, blood pressure data, etc.
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News
David Flory: payment by results tariff will be right, not rushed
The Department of Health will postpone plans to introduce a new payment by results tariff next year if it cannot prevent it from financially destabilising specialist hospitals.