All Efficiency articles – Page 2
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HSJ LocalCouncil scheme could cost trust £1.7m a year
A council’s controversial car parking levy is likely to cost an acute trust £1.65m each year for providing spaces, it has calculated.
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News‘New hospitals’ team eases back on assumed rise in bed occupancy
The team running the government’s New Hospitals Programme has reduced its working assumptions of bed occupancy levels to 92 per cent.
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NewsNHSE appoints new director
NHS England has appointed a new director to implement its commercial strategy.
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NewsExclusive: Ministers order ICB budget ringfence in new recovery plan
The government is ordering the NHS to put a “firmer” ringfence around integrated care boards’ dental budgets, just months after giving the green light to raid them to reduce deficits, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ PartnersGenerative AI, integrated care and virtual wards: The future of urgent care pathways
Embracing transformative AI solutions for ICSs helps maximise efficiency, reduce costs, and elevate patient care in the evolving landscape of healthcare delivery, writes Dr Reggie Sangha, medical director at Content Guru
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NewsNHS 'won't breach budget despite £700m forecast deficit'
The NHS is officially forecasting a breach of its spending limit set by Parliament for the first time in almost a decade.
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HSJ LocalConsultants sent into troubled system after £140m deficit warning
NHS England has sent a consultancy firm into a troubled health system, after it said its financial plan would be missed by up to £140m.
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NewsNearly a third of ICSs admit finance plans will be missed
At least 13 integrated care systems have now admitted they will miss the financial plans they signed up for at the start of the year.
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NewsNHSE spent £75m reducing its workforce in 2022-23
NHS England agreed 951 voluntary redundancies or early retirements in 2022-23 at the cost of around £75m, as it began dramatically reducing the size of the organisation, its annual accounts show.
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NewsHalf of covid ICU kit stockpile to be auctioned off
The government hopes to sell nearly half the intensive care equipment in the strategic pandemic reserve in the next few weeks, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHS England’s convenient excuse
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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NewsProcurement agency creating ‘frustration and mistrust’ among trusts
NHS Supply Chain and NHS England must do more to make the national procurement model more attractive to local trusts if the NHS is to realise potential savings available from buying at scale, according to a National Audit Office report.
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NewsEx-regulator chief to lead new competition panel
NHS England has appointed a chair to its new panel set up to scrutinise decisions made under its new commissioning rules and to decide on complaints that the NHS is not offering patients sufficient choice.
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NewsTrusts ‘strongly recommended’ to stop buying their own energy
The NHS has announced it will move to buying energy centrally in a bid to cut costs, though the deal will not be mandated for trusts.
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NewsCleaning company sues NHS property firm over £237m contract
A state-owned property management firm set up to manage community health facilities built with private finance is being sued for breaking procurement rules when it awarded a £237m cleaning contract.
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Daily InsightThe mythbuster: Let’s start the new year with a positive message about what the NHS can improve
Innovative surgical practices can significantly enhance NHS efficiency and productivity, but entrenched resistance and systemic challenges hinder widespread adoption. Overcoming obstacles is crucial for lasting improvement, writes Steve Black
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CommentIncreased CQC fees for ICBs threaten drive to improve care
To ensure system assessments add value and help improve care quality, the CQC should rethink the assessment process and consider two alternatives, writes Sarah Walter
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NewsNew national boss to oversee ‘40 new hospitals’ programme
The Department of Health and Social Care is looking for a new chief commercial officer to deliver its efficiency and savings targets, as well as a variety of procurement and commercial activities.
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CommentThe NHS needs a new and improved PFI programme
Matthew Custance explains how amid the NHS infrastructure crisis, revisiting private finance initiative funding addresses the £30bn New Hospital Programme, but it necessitates a revamped approach considering past pitfalls and reforms
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NewsNHSE to curb ‘completely out of control’ procurement routes
Local leaders’ use of different procurement routes has been ‘completely out of control’, NHS England’s chief procurement officer has said, as she revealed there will be new restrictions from April.