All Sustainability articles – Page 16
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NewsExclusive: Next STF payments depend solely on financial performance
Regulators say that final allocations from the sustainability and transformation fund this year will be paid in full if headline financial targets are met Final quarter’s allocations could now total more than £800m Measure could incentivise trusts to pursue further technical accounting measures NHS trusts will not be ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: The drag beneath the surface
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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NewsGovernment told to end current pay restraint policy
NHS Pay Review Body warns government action is needed on pay policy Ministers told the lack of a people strategy means workforce issues being neglected One per cent pay rise recommended for all NHS staff Ministers have been warned by the NHS Pay Review Body that action will ...
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HSJ LocalTrust and CCGs locked in costly contract dispute
Mid Cheshire Foundation Trust and CCGs unable to resolve contract dispute All parties have had meetings with NHS England and NHS Improvement chief executives South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs has employed a well known QC to fight its case, which could cost trust £9m A foundation trust ...
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NewsExclusive: NHS England warned over delays to 'vital' funding
NHS England warned that GP practices are not receiving “essential” resilience funding National commissioner promised to give £16m to GP practices by March 2017 BMA says NHS England could be “underestimating” amount of money spent from £40m resilience fund Chaand Nagpaul warns national director over delays in local deployment ...
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HSJ Local
CCG with 'serious weaknesses' put under legal directions
A clinical commissioning group has been placed under legal directions by NHS England after reporting a £27m overspend.
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NewsNHS pension costs to shift from DH to employers
Employer pension contributions will rise from 1 April to cover cost of new levy Department of Health considers the pension scheme a frontline operational service NHS Business Services Authority will receive £35m NHS employers will have to increase their contributions to the NHS pension scheme from next month ...
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NewsThree more trusts placed in special measures
Regulator to appoint improvement directors to St George’s, Northern Lincolnshire and Goole, and University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Improvement says trusts will receive a package of support They can also expect tougher interest rates on the bailout loans from the Department of Health Three more trusts have ...
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: How the East Was One
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover
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NewsExclusive: Trusts rejected 'irresponsible' savings targets of up to 10pc
Around 60 trusts have rejected their control totals Analysis suggests efficiency assumptions averaged 6.4 per cent Lord Carter and former Monitor CEO have previously said 2 per cent is an achievable efficiency target Trusts described their savings requirements as “impossible” and “undeliverable”, and said it would be “irresponsible” for ...
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NewsNaylor review: Minister reveals plan for new NHS property body
Department of Health has accepted Sir Robert Naylor’s recommendation New body will provide strategic estate planning for the NHS Plans were revealed in a Parliamentary answer from Lord O’Shaugnessy The government is planning to establish a new national body to provide “strategic estate planning” for the health service.
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NewsPay crackdown: Trust chiefs to sign off all agency shifts above £120
NHS Improvement says annual pay costs to increase by 3.3 per cent in 2016-17 But real terms reduction in costs against activity suggests productivity gains Trust chief executives must sign off agency shifts of £120 per hour or more Hospital chief executives are now expected to personally sign ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Making the NHS's case to the Treasury
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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HSJ LocalCircle contract win means trust 'risks going in special measures'
PwC report says trust could lose up to £6.6m of income and risk being put into financial special measures Patient safety could be put at risk if Circle subcontracts MSK services to another provider, report says CCG says it is taking action to prevent the trust being destabilised ...
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CommentHousing is ready to step up – will health meet us halfway?
Supported accommodation can play a key role in preventing issues such as unnecessary hospital admission, but it can’t achieve great results on its own
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NewsBailout delays force trusts to take out extra loans
Further uncertainty over the timing of payments from £1.8bn sustainability and transformation fund This could leave more hospitals struggling to pay suppliers and relying on interest bearing loans from the Department of Health Trusts complain of “unnecessary extra cost and administrative burden” Dozens of NHS trusts face having ...
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NewsTrusts must hit A&E targets to secure STF money
NHS Improvement and NHS England chief executives tell trusts performance element of STF funding will be dependent only on hitting A&E targets Simon Stevens and Jim Mackey set out measures to improve A&E performance in a letter to local leaders Trusts will still have to achieve financial control totals ...
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NewsLeading STPs to get 'very modest' £325m capital funding
Philip Hammond says investment will be spread over three years, with further funding expected to be announced in the autumn for more STPs Increase described as “very modest” by experts, considering the significant capital requirements set out in STP documents Analysis of the 44 STP documents suggests they will ...
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CommentMind the growing gap between health and social care
It’s vital that in the forthcoming budget the government makes some bold political decisions that will set the course for putting care and support on a sustainable footing
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CommentShifting from a culture of encouraged dependency to informed responsibility
STP proposals present an important opportunity to prepare for the future despite our inclination to cling to the familiarity of the past.