All Finance and efficiency articles – Page 3
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CommentSomething has to give on ICB redundancies
Funding uncertainty and delays risk undermining ICB reforms essential to delivering the NHS 10-Year Plan, writes Kathy McLean
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News‘40 new hospitals’ will not be delivered until 2046
The delivery of the “40 new hospitals” promised in 2019 by the incoming Conservative government will cost £60bn and take until 2046 to deliver, if pursued by the current administration and its successors.
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NewsPrivate providers’ NHS revenues booming as waiting lists increase
Two private companies used by the NHS to carry out ADHD and autism assessments have seen another huge increase in income, HSJ can reveal.
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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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NewsFirst ICB ‘pauses’ redundancy plans over funding concerns
An integrated care board says it will not progress a redundancy scheme needed to halve its operating costs in the current financial year because it cannot be sure how it will be paid for.
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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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NewsICB predicts 400 staff will get £100k redundancy payouts
Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board has proposed shedding up to 400 posts via a voluntary redundancy scheme costing more than £40m.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: Out of sight, out of mind
HSJ’s briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by senior correspondent Annabelle Collins — contact me in confidence.
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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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NewsPrivate hospitals to lose £60m from in-year tariff changes
Private providers are set to lose more than £60m from a proposed cut to prices paid for cataract procedures.
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CommentAs a hospital group chair, it’s obvious we should invest in the social determinants of health
Targeting poverty and debt through advice services could transform NHS outcomes and cut health costs, writes Matthew Swindells
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CommentWhy environmental sustainability must be part of the 10-Year Health Plan
Embedding environmental sustainability in the NHS is essential not only for climate resilience but also for improving care quality, cutting costs, and achieving long-term health system reform, write Caitríona Callan and Tom Hardie
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NewsStaff will have to ‘see more patients’ to justify tech funding
Services will have to change clinicians’ job plans to increase productivity, in order to receive national tech funding, an NHS England director has suggested.
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NewsNon-acutes ‘will get more tech funding’
Community and mental health trusts will receive a larger share of national technology funding to enable the move to neighbourhood teams, an NHS England director has said.
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NewsA&E funding overhaul plan revealed
Around half of funding for emergency care would depend on cutting wait times and shifting care out of hospital, under detailed plans seen by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The first cyber attack death
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsICB and tech supplier reach last-minute legal settlement
An integrated care board and technology supplier have agreed to settle a legal dispute just minutes before the trial was due to start in the High Court in London.
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News‘Tear up’ outpatient model, Mackey tells NHS
The NHS needs to “tear up” the model of providing outpatients, Sir Jim Mackey has said.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Getting things built
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsProvider sells NHS services after financial collapse
A private provider has collapsed and sold businesses running at least eight urgent care centres to another firm.