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The battle to get the latest technology − an HSJ roundtable
The challenges of bringing innovative kit into hospitals in an age of austerity
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CommentThe harsh impact of competitive tendering
The Health Act pushes us closer to the costly US model
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CommentStill no change in NHS finance after Francis
The post-Francis world is still worringly ‘business as usual’
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the business of mental health
Delays to the planned mental health tariff will not surprise anyone in the field
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CommentNoel Plumridge: when risk assessment goes awry
How necessary monitoring is to avoid failure.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the error of underspending
Doubts are being cast on whether austerity is automatically good.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: levelling the provider playing field
HSJ’s financial columnist on ‘sharks’, ‘ugly sisters’ and social enterprise.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: in the savings equation, the answer is always QIPP
Where will 2011-12 savings end up?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the reinvestment riddle
Where is the process for reinvesting the Nicholson efficiency savings?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: CCGs meet their controllers
The commissioning purse strings remain tightly tied.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the hidden cost of foundation status
“Working capital arrangement” can be a £20m trap.
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CommentCould an NHS trust be allowed to go bankrupt?
Hospitals in the wrong place at the wrong time are in danger.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: do not underestimate CCG support organisations
Could we see CSSs regulate CCGs?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: forget hospitals, competition will thrive in non-acute services
“There are rich commercial pickings in non-acute care.”
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CommentNoel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
Where is the detail on tariff for 2013 and beyond?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: tariff reductions aren't the one-size-fits-all solution
Timely as they are, the Commons health committee’s warnings about the NHS’s approach to saving £20bn are nothing new.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: bonus capital fund threatens to embarrass the system
The letter sent by the Department of Health in late December inviting bids for a £300m capital fund, favouring projects with greater spend in 2011-12, smacks of someone realising the potential for serious embarrassment.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
Social enterprises are starting to find that the odds are not in their favour in a cut-throat market, which could make for a bleak picture in a decade’s time, says Noel Plumridge.