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NewsMinisterial power grab ‘greatest threat’ to NICE existence
The government plans to take direct control of the cost effectiveness thresholds used by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence are “the greatest threat yet to its existence,” according to one the agency’s founding directors.
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CommentThe NHS must stop worshipping false idols if it wishes to improve
The NHS has clung to false hopes that interventions, prevention programmes and AI will unlock spare cash, but real change requires decommissioning services and moving money, not just reducing activity
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CommentThe NHS must be more willing to accept financial gifts
The network of NHS charities donates £1.5m every day to healthcare, but could raise billions more annually if trusts changed their approach, argues NHS Charities Together CEO Ellie Orton
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HSJ PartnersClinically led, patient first: Redefining specialist care in dermatology
When lead clinician Andrew Morris reflects on the origins of the Sussex Community Dermatology Service (SCDS), one principle has guided every decision: putting the patient at the centre.
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NewsContract awards go ahead as ICBs plead they are running out of staff
Integrated care boards have told a court imminent redundancies meant they needed to be able to award more than £100m in contracts while they still had the staff.
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CommentThe neighbourhood care model that is already making a difference
With 27 centres offering drop-in cancer support without appointments or waiting lists, Maggie’s believes it has already built the neighbourhood health model the NHS is trying to design
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NewsThousands waiting 24hrs in A&E with mental illness
One in 10 mental health patients who attended A&E in England last month stayed for more than 24 hours – and this figure rose to more than one in three in some departments, new data suggests.
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News‘Advanced FTs’ will be able to use revenue to fund capital projects
The new advanced foundation trusts will be allowed to save up and then reinvest their revenue surpluses into capital projects, according to guidance out for consultation.
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CommentMedical specialism is contributing to NHS inefficiency
Poor patient flow is creating unacceptable bottlenecks across the NHS, with many medically fit patients stuck in hospital beds daily, but new analysis suggests the crisis is fixable through workforce reform, seven-day discharge and better management
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: CEOs told to get a grip on finance
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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HSJ PartnersSmarter resource management: Why visibility is the NHS’s hidden superpower
With financial pressures mounting, NHS trusts are turning to smarter resource management to improve care and reduce waste. In this HSJ webinar, Royal Papworth and Idox explore how asset tracking and digital visibility are driving trust-wide transformation
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NewsTrusts ‘need help to cut through AI noise’
NHS Providers and IBM have set up an AI productivity centre to help trusts save money when adopting new technology.
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NewsLocal systems must ‘comply’ with new medicines access policy
NHS England wants to standardise local drug formulary teams and operations while it develops a single national formulary over the next two years, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS productivity slows despite ministers hailing ‘green shoots of recovery’
Hospital productivity growth has “slowed sharply” in recent months, new analysis has revealed, prompting experts to warn the NHS is set to miss a key government target.
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NewsTech firm wins £1.2bn national workforce contract
The NHS Business Services Authority has awarded a £1.2bn contract to Indian technology firm Infosys for a new workforce management system.
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News£2bn cost of delayed discharges revealed for first time
The first official estimate of the financial impact of delayed hospital discharges on the NHS has suggested the monthly cost is around £200m.
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News13 trusts trial procurement process designed to ‘save billions’
Thirteen trusts are piloting a procurement system that places less emphasis on price.
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NewsSingle ICB finance system launches after years of delay
NHS England’s new national accounting and finance system – covering all integrated care boards and some other NHS organisations – has gone live after an 18-month delay and years of preparation.
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HSJ LocalTrust targets £10m lost from overseas patients
A hospital trust is beginning a “concerted effort” to collect unpaid debts from overseas patients amid the current NHS “financial crisis”.
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NewsBonus fund led to ‘March madness’ and possible gaming in A&E
A royal college has raised fundamental concerns that an NHS England incentive scheme may have been “gamed” and that this led to what one senior figure branded a “March Madness” in urgent and emergency care performance.