All Recession articles – Page 25
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LeaderNHS commissioners hold the secret to thriving beyond the recession
With even the chancellor having to admit his forecast was woefully wide of the mark, the NHS could be forgiven for basing its financial planning on sunny spells rather than torrential rain.
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News
Strategic health authority advice to PCTs when planning for 2011-12
HSJ contacted the following primary care trusts to ask them what advice their strategic health authorities had given them regarding planning for 2011-12.
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HSJ KnowledgeCoping with recession in the NHS
HSJ financial correspondent Sally Gainsbury and editor Richard Vize discuss the steps NHS managers can take to cope with the recession
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Community
Media Watch: NHS recession depression
Some stories get written because they are about a money, others because they involve gore or sex. Then there are the stories that simply give journalists the opportunity to use phrases that offend, alliterate or rhyme.
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Leader
NHS has a role in weathering the recession
As the country's biggest employer and a tenth of the economy, the NHS has an major role to play in helping us all weather the recession.
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News
Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.
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News
NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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Comment
Michael White on the effects of the recession
How should we react to headlines warning NHS finance directors and their colleagues elsewhere in the public sector that a swathe of private finance initiatives - including new hospitals - is under serious threat because of the recession?
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News
Recession will hit mental health hardest, study finds
The recession will have even more impact on people's mental health than on their finances, the Young Foundation think tank has found.
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Comment
Michael White on the NHS in recession
A rough old trade is politics, as most MPs can confirm. All the same, I felt a bit sorry for Andrew Lansley the other week when he was beaten up for saying 'on many counts recession can be good for us'.
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Comment
Neil Goodwin on coping with recession in the NHS
Recession. It's what everyone is talking about and it will affect you at some point. The boom years are now drawing to a close and public sector budgets are about to see their biggest squeeze in more than a decade.
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Comment
Media Watch: Andrew Lansley's recession comments
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley does not make headlines that often, but this week he had no shortage of coverage after he wrote on an official Conservative party website that recession 'can be good for us' because people tend to smoke and booze less, eat less rich food and spend ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS in recession: when good times turn bad
New hospitals on hold, health workers striking and severe underfunding were all effects of previous recessions. Andy Cowper ask what the latest crisis may mean for the NHS
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News
Warning that cuts will come as recession pushes up demand
Cuts to the planned NHS allocation for 2010-11 will come at a time of increased demand for health services caused by the ill effects of recession, managers are warning.
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Comment
Andrew Jones on healthcare in a recession
We might not officially be in recession, but few would doubt the inevitability of a second quarter of negative growth being confirmed by the Office for National Statistics.