All Efficiency articles – Page 22
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Show me the money
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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HSJ Local
Largest deficit CCG breaks even for first time ahead of merger
England’s most cash-strapped clinical commissioning group is set to break-even financially for the first time in its history.
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News
New NHS price comparison tool in the pipeline
A new price comparison tool is being designed by NHS technology officials which could be rolled out to trusts later this year, HSJ has learned.
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News
Revealed: The trusts failing to meet national efficiency targets
NHS trusts continue to miss targets aimed at helping hospitals spend millions of pounds more effectively, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
The false promise of the self-improving health system
There is an urgent need to reform the system for paying and contracting for services in the NHS but new complex financial incentive schemes are not the answer, writes Ben Collins
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News
Revealed: CCGs restricting access to basic treatments
Nearly one in five clinical commissioning groups are restricting access to at least three basic elective surgeries and treatments, according to researchers.
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HSJ Interactive
Digital health: What’s the point?
Jonathan Bloor lists the core tenets that leaders should remember as they work towards implementing digital technologies to deliver the long-term plan
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Expert Briefing
The Download: The GP IT showdown
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HSJ Awards
Shortlist revealed for 2019 HSJ Value Awards
The 2019 HSJ Value Awards shortlist has been revealed.
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News
Government reviews private finance options
The government has launched a review of private financing options for public infrastructure and said it will no longer procure PFI-type projects that are “off-balance sheet”.
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Event listing
Places still available for the HSJ Provider Summit
Places are still available for the prestigious HSJ Provider Summit, the year’s most exclusive gathering of the provider sector’s leading figures.
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News
Thousands of continence products late as deliveries go 'badly wrong'
Thousands of continence products were delivered late to patients after a switch to a new national logistics provider went “badly wrong”, HSJ has learned.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Selling patient data
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News
Trusts bemoan cost pressures from clinical waste switch
Several NHS trusts are grappling with extra costs and relying on temporary containers for clinical waste storage, after a forced change of supplier following last year’s stockpiling scandal.
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News
'Glove shortages' at main supplier after unexpected demand
Contingency plans have been triggered to make sure NHS trusts keep receiving millions of examination gloves, after an unforeseen surge in demand caused “stock shortages” at their main supplier.
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HSJ Local
Snubbed STP accuses centre of not fully considering capital bids
Leaders of a health economy which has been awarded only a fraction of the funds allocated through a new capital regime have claimed national bodies failed to fully consider their bids.
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News
Revealed: The winners and losers of government's £2.9bn capital pot
Two out of three requests from NHS trusts for capital investment have so far been rejected under the government’s new funding regime, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: Can NHSX unpick the digital quango tangle?
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News
Exclusive: DHSC creates Brexit 'logistics hub' in Belgium
The Department of Health and Social Care has set up a “logistics hub” in Belgium and plans to manage its own dedicated shipping route from mainland Europe to the UK for vital medical products, as part of no-deal preparations, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ Local
Trio of private providers fight for £2.2bn London contract
Three bidders have been shortlisted for one of the biggest NHS pathology contracts, HSJ can reveal.