FINANCE: East and North Herts Trust is still predicting a £3.5m surplus this year.
But the trust says to achieve this will require ‘an appropriate settlement in terms of the readmission penalties and a fair share of the transformation fund’, as well as delivering on cost improvement and cost controls.
At the end of January it had a surplus of £1.7m against an original target of £2.3m.
February 2012
An estimated extra quarter of a million patients a year could be referred to the private sector under proposed waiting list rules, HSJ analysis has revealed.
An inadequate-rated clinical commissioning group, which was heavily criticised in a review of its governance, leadership and operations, is now making “good progress” on addressing its problems, a follow-up report has said.
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group has appointed one of its directors to spearhead work on an improvement plan following claims of bullying, poor culture and whistleblowing.
A trust has cut its spending on agency staff by half through greater use of electronic rostering.
A £412m turnover hospital trust has been fined more than £600,000 over the late payment of a supplier in the last three financial years.
East and North Hertfordshire Trust to replace 21 nurse posts with nursing associates Royal College of Nursing warns the move is worrying and will short change patients Nursing associate role is being developed by Health Education England The Royal College of Nursing has criticised plans by an NHS
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