All Efficiency articles – Page 41
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Trusts to create regional shared staff bank
Three trusts in the Midlands are working on plans to create a shared staff bank, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: Quality and financial regulation could be joined, says Mike Richards
Professor Sir Mike Richards says in future there might not be separate regulation of quality and finance Chief inspector of hospitals says rating trusts for use of resources is the “most challenging” issue for the CQC in the year ahead NHS Improvement director Kathy McLean says struggling trusts will ...
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NewsMajor deal brings 'Amazon style' procurement to nearly 100 trusts
New procurement platform could be a major step towards creating a single procurement catalogue across the NHS Exclusive partnership deal struck between NHS Shared Business Services, which serves 87 NHS trusts, and retail technology firm Virtualstock System already implemented by Guy’s and St Thomas’ FT, which was highlighted in ...
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HSJ LocalLatest STP published reveals hospital reconfiguration
Council in the North East become fourth to publish STP Key plans include consolidating specialist services into two specialist hospitals Sets out £260m of efficiency savings Hartlepool Borough Council leader raises concerns about transparency of the process Consolidating specialist hospital services on to two sites and creating a ...
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HSJ KnowledgeLeadership Q&A: Doncaster and Bassetlaw FT
Mike Pinkerton explains how the new chief executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals Foundation Trust will help the organisation become fully financially sustainable
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHS England moves its tanks
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsCall for non-FTs to have greater freedom to deliver STPs
NHS trusts should be allowed to set up shared service companies and be part of accountable care organisations to help deliver their sustainability and transformation plans, a leading healthcare law firm has said.
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NewsExclusive: Regulator may publish lists of highest earning agency staff
NHS Improvement describes workforce information that could be published in next quarterly report Provider sector is “falling short” of targets for agency spending New protocols for revising financial forecasts Trusts with “high pay bill growth” to be contacted this month Regulators have warned that NHS providers are “falling ...
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HSJ LocalNew trust chief vows to cut costly out of area treatments
Leeds and York Partnership FT’s new chief executive hopes to save £1.5m by reducing out of area treatments Trust has sent 37 adult mental health patients out of area for treatment since April Sara Munro took up the post last month Hopes reducing out of area placements will save ...
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HSJ LocalTrusts establish 'first of its kind' regional pathology venture
Two trusts have formed an innovative digital pathology partnership designed to secure sustainable, high quality services for the whole of east and south Yorkshire.
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NewsPathology and back office savings 'won't all be achieved this year'
NHS will not realise full savings from back office and pathology consolidations in 2016-17, Jeremy Marlow says NHS Improvement productivity director says some STP areas will “deliver cash this year” from consolidation “We’re not going to take the keys off trusts,” he promises The health service will not ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Cutting the rate of surgical site wound infections
A roundtable by HSJ and Nursing Times during the Patient Safety Congress focused on how to reduce the high toll on health and finances caused by complications in post-operative care
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NewsFirst set of standardised products for NHS providers announced
NHS Improvement announces first tranche of standardised products to boost procurement volumes and cut prices Twelve products cover £100m of trust spending and could result in 25 per cent savings Regulator says it would prefer “coalition of the willing” to enforcing compliance through contracts Read the products list and ...
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CommentPeople are at the heart of transformation
Integrated data from the population’s use of services and workforce can help systems monitor response to the needs of the people and enhance improvement
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CommentFor integration to work, local authorities must be equal partners in STPs
Sustainability and transformation plans can help create a coherent system out of the existing muddle of local government and NHS structures
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Making the most of technology
Doing technology well involves negotiating multiple hurdles, from sceptical boards to lack of national direction, heard HSJ’s latest roundtable panel
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Hinchingbrooke names private partner for £150m building project
Plan says “strategic estates partnership” could secure £5m of recurrent income by letting property and managing land use Trust is seeking approval from Treasury and NHS Improvement Strategic estates partnerships are being closely watched by ministers as means for delivering NHS capital project A district general hospital has ...
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NewsStevens: Southern Health controversy 'undermined public confidence'
Simon Stevens says at “Southern Health, patients and families have been let down and public confidence undermined” Follows Katrina Percy resigning as chief executive but retaining salary NHS England chief executive says NHS “can’t justify examples of what can come across as self-serving behaviour” Mr Stevens warns it is ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How about some big action on data
The NHS must ensure that informatics’ potential for savings and productivity must be fulfilled quickly
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HSJ LocalMental health trust saves £2m by cutting out of area placements
Mental health trust has eliminated acute adult out of area placements due to lack of beds in the last four years Sheffield Health and Social Care FT has put the £2m savings into bolstering community services teams “Out of town bed nights” dropped from 2,939 to 188 from 2011-12 ...