All Efficiency articles – Page 27
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NewsKey caesarean drug unavailable for two weeks
A drug used in most caesarean sections in the UK is expected to be unavailable for the next two weeks, prompting concerns some trusts may run out of supplies.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Raising one’s standards
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NewsCourt date set for NHS business rates challenge
A court date has been set in the long running legal battle between councils and NHS trusts over whether they should be classified as charities and so receive an 80 per cent discount on their business rates bills.
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NewsDalton appointed automation tsar
Former NHS Improvement chief executive Ian Dalton is now heading a government task force charged with automating public services.
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News‘System issue’ leaves trusts in the dark over savings from flagship project
NHS trusts do not yet know how much they can expect in savings from a new national procurement model thanks to a “system issue”.
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CommentWhen is a saving not a saving?
NHS bodies and management consultancies often resort to false accounting and use misleading language to describe finances in order to keep the show running, notes Nadeem Moghal
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Trust digital maturity revealed at last
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NewsLeaked blueprint reveals plan to centralise NHS procurement
The NHS’s buying power for goods and services worth up to £10bn could be taken away from individual trusts and placed in central teams, under proposals leaked to HSJ.
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NewsNHS ditches popular savings tool for new in-house version
NHS trusts have been told to switch from a widely-praised price comparison tool to a new in-house version in a bid to ramp up procurement savings.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Where the money’s gone
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HSJ AwardsWorking at scale to improve medicines management
AT Medics won the 2018 HSJ Award for Optimisation of Medicines Management for creating a central pharmacy team that worked to improve the quality of prescribing, reports Claire Read
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NewsTrusts invited to increase ownership of their estate
Trusts have been invited to apply for ownership of buildings on their estate which are currently owned by NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships.
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NewsNHSI efficiency chief joins Deloitte seven months after £400,000 contract award
A senior manager working in NHS Improvement’s efficiency team will become a director at Deloitte, seven months after he was part of a panel that awarded a contract to the firm for help on a major shake-up of NHS procurement.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Why Babylon in Birmingham matters
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2019: Workforce efficiency award
Winner University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust: Changing our workforce to improve service delivery in child screening for orthoptics in Warwickshire The orthoptic department at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire Trust has redesigned its school vision screening service to see more children, reducing the time spent on administration ...
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: A sneak preview of a keenly awaited review of A&Es
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NewsJudge green-lights award of CCG's disputed £320m contract
A judge has ruled a clinical commissioning group can award a £320m contract to its local acute trust despite an ongoing dispute from a large private provider.
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NewsTrusts bid to take on CCG budgets
Three London trusts are in talks with clinical commissioning groups to take on responsibility for local mental health budgets, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: Between Matthews
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News'Zero tolerance' for A&E waits beyond six hours proposed by NHSE chief
NHS England’s emergency care clinical lead has said there should be “zero per cent tolerance” on patients spending longer than six hours in an accident and emergency department.