All Sustainability articles – Page 10
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HSJ Local
ACS commissioning group re-enters special measures after seven months
A large clinical commissioning group – which is part of a proposed accountable care system – has been put back in financial special measures, less than a year after coming out of the regime.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Ambitious merger 'not a Machiavellian plan', says trust chief
Plans to merge three Essex trusts were proposed after an experiment to run the hospitals as a “group” with one leadership team proved “cumbersome and inefficient”, the chief executive has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Trusts halt merger plans after NHS Improvement feedback
Two trusts have stopped a potential merger after NHS Improvement said the problems faced by their health economy need to be fixed first, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
Exclusive: Senior leaders of three trusts to recommend merger
The joint chief executive and senior team of three Essex acute trusts will recommend controversial plans to merge next year to create one of the largest trusts in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Fifth CCG could join new regional alliance
A fifth clinical commissioning group is considering joining the Central Sussex Commissioning Alliance, just days after it went live.
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HSJ Local
Trusts battle to take over neighbouring provider
An acute trust and a mental health provider in the West Midlands will compete to take over a neighbouring community trust after both were shortlisted as preferred bidders to run the struggling provider.
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HSJ Local
Struggling CCG's deficit spirals for second year running
A struggling clinical commissioning group has seen its forecast deficit spiral for the second year in a row, more than quadrupling to £20m for 2017-18.
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HSJ Local
Trust seeks £15m DH support as deficit forecast balloons
A trust in financial special measures is to seek up to £15m of working capital support from the Department of Health after its planned deficit quadrupled.
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HSJ Local
Trust appoints permanent chief executive after two year wait
A struggling acute trust has appointed a substantive chief executive after being run by interims for more than two years.
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News
Half of new winter money to boost provider bottom lines
National leaders have agreed at least half of the £335m winter funding announced in the budget should support trusts that were already buying in extra capacity, HSJ understands.
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Comment
Lord Kerslake's resignation is a sober warning to the government
Lord Kerslake’s resignation shows that speaking out is still hard for NHS leaders – and should be a red flag for ministers, writes Rob Whiteman
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News
Interest rates on bailout loans 'absolute madness', says former NHSI boss
Jim Mackey has criticised the Department of Health for applying “totally pointless” interest rates to the bailout loans that support financially struggling NHS hospitals.
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News
Mackey 'irritated' over ongoing provider deficits
The former chief executive of NHS Improvement said he was “irritated and disappointed” in himself for not being able to clear the provider deficit – but the sector was also “let down” by some providers such as King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Trusts consider new pathology hub at university
NHS leaders in Lancashire are hopeful that four acute trusts will agree to consolidate pathology services on a university site in the north of the county, in a project that would cost £31m.
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News
Winter pressures fund could be used to 'help trust bottom lines'
Trust leaders have called for a significant proportion of the £335m winter pressures fund to boost the bottom line of hospitals that have already purchased extra capacity.
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News
Analysis: NHS DTOCs increase despite national push
The number of NHS bed days lost to delayed transfers of care increased in the second quarter of 2017-18 compared to the first, despite a national target to cut delayed discharges, analysis of official data reveals.
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News
Revealed: Seven trusts breaching break even duty until 2022
Seven NHS trusts believe they will not technically break even for five years or more, with two requiring until 2026, HSJ analysis reveals.
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HSJ Local
Cash-strapped trust withdraws community outpatient services
A cash-strapped teaching hospital trust has announced it will stop providing outpatient services at a community hospital because they are not financially viable.
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HSJ Local
National bodies step in as health economy's financial risk grows
The East Sussex health economy has a “system risk” of £80m with its clinical commissioning groups and the main acute provider likely to miss their control totals and the financial deterioration likely to “one of the most significant in the South East.”
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Optimism breaks down as financial risk grows
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.