All Sustainability articles – Page 10
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: £780m bonanza for trusts that stay on target
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsFinancially struggling trusts pay £183m in 'pointless' interest charges
Financially troubled NHS trusts have paid interest charges of more than £180m on their short term cash bailouts from the Department of Health and Social Care in the last three financial years.
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CommentReflections on the provider sector deficit
Adam Wright reflects on the future of the provider sector in the light of the recently released quarter three performance data for the sector
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NewsRevealed: Finance forecasts worsen by £364m at risky trusts
The year-end financial forecasts of around 40 NHS trusts have worsened by £364m over the last three months, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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HSJ LocalCommissioners ask neighbouring CCG to give back £3m
A clinical commissioning group that gave a neighbouring CCG £3m at the start of the financial year has asked for its money back after running into financial problems.
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HSJ LocalKing's needs £223m DHSC loan this year, board reveals
A London teaching hospital has predicted it will need to borrow nearly a quarter of a billion pounds from the Department of Health and Social Care this financial year, it emerged yesterday.
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NewsTrust expects to miss control total deficit by £30m
A south eastern trust is predicting a deficit worth over £56m – more than double its original plan and 15 per cent of its total income – after being hit by lower elective income and losing a payments dispute with local commissioners.
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HSJ LocalSmallest acute trust to merge
The smallest acute trust in England is due to merge with its neighbour, after years struggling with unsustainable services.
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NewsNHS England review says £1bn needed to stop cyberattacks
The NHS needs to spend £1bn on cybersecurity to protect “core patient safety” an upcoming review has found.
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HSJ LocalACS 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 LocalExclusive: 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 LocalTrusts 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 LocalExclusive: 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 LocalFifth 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 LocalTrusts 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 LocalStruggling 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 LocalTrust 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 LocalTrust 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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NewsHalf 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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CommentLord 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