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NewsExclusive: Elective recovery scheme ‘wide open to gaming’
Plans to pay trusts to validate and sometimes remove patients from their waiting lists could be “wide open to gaming” and create a public perception problem, senior NHS figures have told HSJ.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: PFI is overdue a comeback
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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News20% of corporate jobs to go in cost-cutting restructure
An ambulance trust is reducing the number of posts in its corporate directorates by 20 per cent.
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HSJ LocalICB pays consultants £230,000 to help it escape deficit
An integrated care board has hired external consultants in a bid to improve its finances, and support one of its trusts to exit the highest rung of national oversight.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: ICBs freed – to cut services
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingReform Watch: What the new elective plan means
With the launch of Labour’s plan for elective care, Recovery Watch becomes Reform Watch. This newsletter will track the new government’s plans to “re-imagine” the NHS.
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NewsHalf of ICBs sued over £168m waste procurement
Half of England’s integrated care boards are being sued by a waste management firm over the procurement of healthcare waste collection and disposal services for primary care.
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NewsTrust rapped for ‘irregular’ £116k payment to outgoing CEO
An NHS trust has been reprimanded by the public spending watchdog after it paid its departing chief executive more than £100,000 without prior Treasury sign-off.
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News£200m consultancy bill for New Hospital Programme revealed
More than £200m has been paid to two consultancies for work on the New Hospital Programme to date, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCEO of NHS’s largest trust to stand down
The NHS trust with the largest annual income has started an “international” search for a new chief executive.
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NewsMajor pricing shake-up for elective care announced
NHS England is to carry out a wide-ranging review of how elective care is paid for, according to a new joint NHSE-government plan published this morning.
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NewsCharity donates £330m to trust’s hospital rebuild
A charity has donated £330m to the building of a new cancer centre, financial documents reveal.
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NewsHospital group takes over £450m trust after years of talks
A hospital and community services trust has been taken over by its neighbour.
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LeaderThe return of grown-up financial planning offers hope for 2025
The most pressing task facing NHS England and the service it oversees in the next three or four months will be to agree on a trust by trust, system by system financial and operational settlement that is both credible and acceptable to both parties and the government.
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NewsTrusts’ pathology venture pays £25m profit to Australian co-owner
A public-private pathology partnership has paid £25m in profit to its majority share owner, and another £25m to two NHS trusts, accounts reveal.
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News‘Further delays’ to new hospitals
The New Hospital Programme has formally told schemes to pause work while a major government review is ongoing, prompting warnings about fresh delays, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsTrust signs 10-year deal despite ‘deplorable’ comments by firm’s CEO
An IT firm whose CEO was caught making racist and misogynistic comments has won a significant new NHS contract with a trust that stated it had “not taken this decision lightly”.
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NewsNo big increase in waiting list work next year, says NHSE
The NHS will carry out a similar level of elective activity next year as it has this year, despite government ambitions to significantly reduce waiting times, under plans agreed with ministers.
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NewsRevealed: All but three ICSs fall behind financial plans
A total of 39 of the 42 integrated care systems have fallen behind their financial plans, new figures reveal.
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CommentThe perfect Christmas gifts for NHS managers
Stuck for original gift ideas? Running out of time due to last-minute reporting commitments? There’s something for everyone in this list of festive shopping recommendations, compiled by Julian Patterson