All Recession articles – Page 6
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LeaderMcKinsey report: unthinkable solutions set scene for NHS cuts
What lies behind the governments’s decision to publish the McKinsey report into NHS cost savings this week?
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Department of Health in-year costs under pressure
The Department of Health was spared in the chancellor’s £6.2bn in-year cut in public spending outlined on Monday but it is still being required to make significant recyclable savings from its arm’s length bodies and central budgets.
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NewsWill NHS building plans stay on the drawing board?
All spending commitments approved by the DH or Treasury this year have been called in for review as the new government seeks massive savings in the public sector. Some major NHS development plans now face uncertainty, reports Alison Moore
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Department of Health spared immediate spending cuts
The Department of Health’s overall spending will not be reduced in the current financial year, the Treasury has confirmed.
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HSJ KnowledgeRedundancy in the NHS: how to ensure fairness
If you have to let people go, make sure the process is compassionate and fair, says Michael Moran
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NewsWarning on hidden NHS spending cuts
The health service should be alert to the “real risk” that spending areas outside of health will “leak” into the NHS’s budget responsibilities, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsLansley to slash NHS management costs
Andrew Lansley, the new health secretary, has warned Department of Health staff to brace themselves for a significant cut in their budget this year.
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CommentNeil Churchill: NHS savings on long term conditions
Encouraging patients to be more self sufficient could go quite a way towards realising the required savings of £2.7bn a year by 2014 from the NHS’s long term conditions budget
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NewsUCLH plan to rescue Barts from PFI crisis
Senior managers in London are cooking up an ambitious plan to rescue Barts and the Royal London Trust from its unaffordable £1bn private finance initiative deal.
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NewsLansley confirms London reconfiguration halted
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has called a halt to NHS reconfiguration in London.
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NewsFreeze public sector pay immediately, says CBI
Business leaders have called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill under moves to control public finances.
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NewsNicola Sturgeon rules out compulsory redundancies
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon offered firm guarantees today that no NHS employee will face compulsory redundancy as part of plans to tackle public spending pressures.
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NewsCoalition to deliver emergency Budget on 22 June
Chancellor George Osborne today announced that he will deliver his first emergency Budget on 22 June, exactly six weeks after the new coalition government took office.
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NewsGreater Glasgow and Clyde to cut 1,200 jobs
A health board has announced it is to cut more than 1,200 jobs in the next 18 months.
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CommentRichard Barker and Steve Smith: health and wealth are partners
The NHS and life sciences industry have already proven how well they can work together
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NewsConcern over safety of £1.7bn set aside for 'non-recurrent' NHS spending
NHS finance sources are concerned the new government may claw back the £1.7bn set aside for “non-recurrent” spending.
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NewsLansley must focus on prevention and productivity - King's Fund
Andrew Lansley must increase NHS productivity and refocus the service on prevention in order to maintain the quality of services and avoid cuts, the King’s Fund has said.
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£87m 'black hole' for health board
Health bosses in Wales are facing a £87.5 million budget hole, Wales Online has revealed.
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NewsCongratulations - you're the new health secretary
You are responsible for a £110bn budget and the health of the nation, but with an average of only two years in the job there is no time to lose. Andy McKeon describes what you should expect in your first days as secretary of state for health
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CommentJeremy Taylor on involving patients in hospital closures
It is nearly a year since NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson announced the need for £15bn-£20bn of NHS efficiency savings.