All Payment by results (PbR) articles – Page 6
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NewsMaternity services 'run deficit'
Many of England’s maternity services run at a deficit and have to be subsidised by other departments, the Foundation Trust Network has told MPs.
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NewsRevealed: the £2bn switch back to payment by results
More than £2bn of acute service funding has moved away from locally agreed deals and onto the national payment by results tariff this year, an HSJ investigation has found.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to land any qualified provider status
Ten pieces of advice on how to become an AQP organisation
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CommentA healthy level of competition and choice
Mental health has quietly and effectively been using competition
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Community trusts devise plan to 'level playing field'
Community services trusts are starting work on a national programme to develop indicators to benchmark their performance and value, which could potentially underpin a tariff payment system for the sector, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentNew approach to enforcing rules and incentives would be a jolt
The NHS can follow the US’s lead on payment system
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CommentPayment by results reform needs vision and realism
The tariff must fit into the new financial reality
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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HSJ KnowledgeThree ways NHS England's review can improve incentives
How do we ensure incentives improve quality of care?
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NewsUPDATED: Monitor questions payment by results for mental health
The mandatory rollout of a national payment by results tariff for mental healthcare providers in 2014-15 has been dropped by Monitor, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS payment system 'needs reform'
Finance managers are calling for a reform of the NHS internal payments system.
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NewsPush for payment by results reform gathers pace
NHS England wants to investigate the scope for scrapping payment by results for some services as early as 2015-16, its director of strategic finance has told HSJ.
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NewsMonitor mulls cuts as DH turns down its budget bid
The Department of Health has refused to agree Monitor’s proposed budget for this year, setting an allocation nearly £6m lower than the healthcare regulator believes it needs.
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NewsSome commissioners setting 'unachievable' targets, NHS England admits
NHS England is floating the possibility of scrapping the complex array of financial penalties and incentives currently imposed on NHS providers and replacing them, from 2015-16, with a single pay-for-performance premium.
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HSJ KnowledgeLet's take integrated care from rhetoric to reality
Progress is being made to join up health and social care commissioning
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Regional hospitals push for funding equality with London
A group of regional teaching hospitals is pushing NHS England to guarantee its members the same level of financial support as their London counterparts receive under the Project Diamond programme, HSJ has discovered.
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Growth of payment by results 'unsustainable', says Monitor director
The past decade’s rapid expansion in the number of nationally set “payment by results” prices for NHS services is unsustainable - and “may already have gone too far”, Monitor’s pricing director has told HSJ.
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NewsAnalysed: The reform of payment by results
In the HSJ Briefing week we examine the proposals for changing NHS payment systems.