All Finance articles – Page 113
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Expert BriefingPerformance Watch: Honesty needed ahead of another tough winter
The NHS is facing a winter which is likely to be just as tough, or tougher still, than the last one. Even if new money is pumped into the service this year, there is a danger the die is already cast.
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NewsStevens: Law change will ‘speed us on the journey’ of new plan
Simon Stevens has welcomed the prime minister’s suggestion that the NHS develop proposals for changes to the law, saying legislation could “speed us on the journey” of implementing the long term plan.
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NewsThree hospital trusts to form alliance
Three acute trusts in the South West have agreed to form a hospital alliance focusing on identifying gaps in workforce and capital across the region.
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NewsCarillion staff transferred to NHS as PFI provider collapses
A mental health trust is taking “urgent action” by moving dozens of estates and facilities management staff to a newly-formed subsidiary company after its PFI provider went into administration.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The 3pc solution – the politics and practice, the ends and means
With the government having declared a NHS funding boost, Andy Cowper mulls over the politics of NHS funding
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NewsMay expects new money to deliver improvements in key services
The prime minister has said NHS England will be tasked to draw up a “ten year plan” to make improvements to key services with the extra funding announced today by government.
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NewsHunt: NHS deal was 'a moment of choice for government'
The new NHS funding deal had been a “moment of choice for the government and the country”, health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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Secret Cabinet Office report was key to unlocking Treasury coffers
The run-up to agreement on an NHS funding deal.
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NewsTreasury ‘agrees to support social care'
The Chancellor and prime minister have agreed the NHS should not have to foot the bill for knock-on pressures from rising demand for social care, senior sources told HSJ.
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NewsNHS gets 3.4pc a year in major new funding deal
The government has agreed to increase NHS England’s budget by an average of 3.4 per cent in each of the next five years.
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NewsShelford Group trust signs £107m IT deal
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has signed a £107m contract with Northern Ireland company to provide IT support services.
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NewsNHS 'must turn on all the taps' to meet workforce gap
The NHS workforce needs to grow by between 3 and 5 per cent a year for the next decade but is on course to fail that target, the head of Health Education England has warned.
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NewsNHS will be in 'managed decline' without at least 4pc growth
NHS Confederation chief executive predicts “managed decline” without sufficient funding Any funding deal worth less than 4 per cent in real terms each year would see the service in ”managed decline”, NHS Confederation chief executive Niall Dickson has told HSJ.
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NewsNHSI to take 'long, hard look' at clinical configurations
NHS Improvement will take a “long, hard and important look” at the configuration of clinical services and the organisational structures around them, its chief executive said this morning.
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NewsAmbulance trust pledges to treat more patients on scene
London Ambulance Service Trust has pledged to treat more patients at the scene to cut the capital’s high conveyance rates under ambitious plans, which include a significant increase in senior paramedics, its medical director told HSJ.
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Exclusive: STF benefited trusts that 'needed it least'
The funding regime that was introduced to stabilise the acute sector has resulted in more cash being funnelled into the NHS trusts that needed it the least, according to analysis by HSJ.
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Expert BriefingMental Health Matters: The outcome based contracting conundrum
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome, so please feel free to email me in confidence.
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CommentIntegrated care has the potential to improve health outcomes
Chris Ham and Anna Charles outline the findings and recommendations of the health and social care committee’s review of integrated care development in the NHS
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise
Andy Cowper on why if we collude with a fear narrative by lying about NHS finances, then we are lost
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HSJ Local
Three trust partnership finds £4m investment for community services
New models of working between three London mental health trusts has delivered new investment in services worth more than £4m, HSJ has learned.