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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.
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NewsDHSC seeks £120m saving from 'unwarranted price variation'
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting expert advisers to help update the list of prescribable products in community settings in a bid to save up to £120m.
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NewsScanner procurement cancelled under threat of legal challenge
A leading specialist cancer trust has had to cancel and re-run the procurement of a cutting-edge scanner to stave off the threat of a legal challenge..
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NewsNHSE launches programme to enable ‘patient power payments’
Work has begun to create a new national feedback system to support the government’s proposed “patient power payments”, which would see individual members of the public able to affect how much money providers and commissioners receive for treating them.
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NewsOut of court settlement in £4.4bn procurement challenge
The NHS has settled a £4.4bn procurement challenge out of court, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAnnual bill for NHS’s most costly drug set to be slashed
The annual cost of NHS diabetes care could fall by £300m after the Supreme Court refused to consider blocking the introduction of a generic alternative to a widely used drug.
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NewsNHSE-DHSC merger halts small business grants
An NHS-backed grant agency cannot give small businesses early-stage funding for healthtech innovations this year because of the merger of NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.
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NewsTrusts ‘stumbling into legal challenge’ with botched procurements
The government is intervening to try to improve NHS contracting of diagnostic services, after being warned about a series of delayed and bungled procurements by trusts.
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CommentCut in haste, repent at leisure
A cautionary tale about cuts, consensus, and getting it wrong if we move too fast, from Andi Orlowski
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HSJ PartnersMedicines optimisation offers untapped opportunities for financial sustainability
As NHS reforms take shape and financial pressures grow, FDB explores how technology-enabled medicines optimisation can help primary care deliver safer, more efficient, and cost-effective prescribing.
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CommentThe environmental cost of medicines waste
Despite costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds annually, medicines waste remains largely invisible and unmeasured
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NewsNHSE declares £1.5bn of ‘risk’ in financial plans
A large number of local trust and commissioner financial plans are still “high risk”, NHS England has said.
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HSJ PartnersMaking the most of the NHS estate
The NHS continues to face significant financial pressures. With integrated care boards recently tasked with cutting running costs by 50 per cent, there’s an urgent need to rethink how we deliver excellent patient care while reducing expenditure.