All articles by Sally E Gainsbury – Page 11
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Audit Commission finds payment coding errors
Inaccurate payment by results coding by hospitals has led to primary care trusts being overcharged by as much as 6 per cent, the Audit Commission has found.
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Private treatment centre to go ahead despite local critics
NHS South Central has said it will press ahead with controversial plans for a new independent sector treatment centre despite local concerns that added capacity is not needed.
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Cost-benefit thresholds are outdated, says MPs' report
The health select committee has recommended sweeping changes to the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence assesses what drugs and treatments should be available on the NHS.
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NICE must reform say MPs
The health select committee has recommended sweeping changes to the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence assesses what drugs and treatments should be available on the NHS.In their report published today the committee says that NICE’s cost threshold of£30,000 per quality life year gained, which it uses ...
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Operating framework reasserts DoH's central control
NHS chief executive David Nicholson's exhortation to look out to communities, not up to the DoH at Richmond House, is starting to look like lip service, given the new operating framework's raft of extended targets, writes Sally Gainsbury
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Fears DoH could claw back foundation trust surpluses
A dispute between University College London Hospitals foundation trust and the Department of Health has fuelled fears that the government will claw back surpluses from foundation trusts.
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Hunt on for missing £870m as DoH accused of hoarding cash
The Department of Health is keeping back up to £870m in NHS funding, HSJ has been told - and is suspected of hoarding the cash to pay for extra initiatives next year.
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new community hospital schemes announced
Just over one third of the£750m announced in 2006 to modernise community hospitals has now been allocated, the Department of Health has said. The£750m was due to be spent over five years on either building new community hospitals or super surgeries, or renovating old ones. It followed the 2006 health ...
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Private sector reassured over future in NHS
Private healthcare providers have been 'reassured' of their future role in the NHS after health secretary Alan Johnson pledged to rectify an IT problem that has prevented patients knowing about their right to choose private care.
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Hidden PFI debts to be declared
New guidance on accounting rules for the private finance initiative could cost the NHS up to £342m a year.
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Foundation trusts are breaking law on private income, says union
Foundation trusts seeking to maximise income from private patients have been dealt a blow this week by legal actions involving their regulator Monitor and the Charity Commission.
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Trusts urged not to 'fritter away' £1.8bn surplus
NHS managers must 'up their game' to earn autonomy and win the respect of their communities, the NHS chief executive has warned.
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Doctors doubt intellect of managers
Clinicians regard NHS managers as committed and trying hard but 'poorly trained and not always of a high intellectual calibre', the Audit Commission has found.
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Plunging waiting times reopen dispute over clinical benefits
The government's focus on cutting waiting lists can lead to resources being drained away from treatments for those in the greatest medical need, academics have claimed.This week the Healthcare Commission praised NHS organisations for 'genuinely dramatic' improvements in waiting times. But research from the Royal Society of Ophthalmologists has found ...
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Trusts hit back over budget surpluses
NHS organisations predicting large underspends have defended themselves following Alan Johnson’s suggestion that large surpluses are ‘unreasonable’.
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PCT annual health checks may include green targets
Primary care trusts' green credentials could be assessed as part of their annual health check from next year. It follows an Audit Commission consultation on how PCTs' annual performance is to be rated.
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top up reversal
TheLondonspecialist commissioning group has reversed its decision to deny six hospitals tops ups for their specialist spinal surgery. The move brings the total number ofLondonhospitals eligible for top ups above the payment by results tariff for specialist spinal work from two to eight. The strategic health authority-based SCG’s decision follows ...
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SHAs slash top-up payments for complex care
Strategic health authorities have slashed the number of hospital providers eligible for 'top-up' payments for specialist treatment after coming under pressure from the Department of Health.
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Surplus-rich PCTs anxious of cuts in new allocations
Surplus-rich primary care trusts have expressed fears that a one-year funding allocation signals greater financial turbulence ahead.
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In-house turnaround team to cut NHS's £36m consultants' bill
The Department of Health is preparing to launch its own team of troubleshooters to assist NHS organisations facing clinical or financial problems.