All Finance articles – Page 145
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HSJ Local'Lives at risk' unless ambulance trust cuts waiting times
East of England Ambulance Service “does not have capacity” to meet response time targets, chief executive admits Coroner warns of patients waiting up to four hours for a vehicle response Inquest heard Brian Mills waited more than two hours for emergency responder The chief executive of East of ...
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NewsAnalysis: NHS fraud prosecutions fall by three-quarters
The number of NHS fraud prosecutions has declined significantly over the past six years, HSJ analysis reveals.
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CommentPreparing for the impact of Brexit on health in the UK
In the aftermath of Brexit, it is essential that the NHS gain public support for the continued recruitment of clinical and scientific staff from the EU
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HSJ KnowledgeHow a collaborative approach is Doing The Right Thing for place-based health and care
How the voluntary sector can best contribute to health and care transformation was the focus of a Richmond Group of Charities seminar in London
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HSJ LocalNew chief executive revealed for financially troubled trust
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals has promoted its nursing director to chief executive.
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Jumping the hurdles to better care in rare diseases
An HSJ roundtable sponsored by Shire brought together experts to ask whether the NHS was taking advantage of all the factors that could improve outcomes for patients with rare diseases. By Alison Moore
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NewsStop using expensive management consultants, NHS told
Lord Carter questions the NHS’s £640m spending on management consultancies Likened policymakers to a “dog watching television” Warns the Treasury will not provide extra funding without evidence of performance Lord Carter has questioned why the NHS spent £640m on external management consultancies, describing the use of the firms ...
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NewsStevens: STPs will get 'decision rights' to reorganise trusts and CCGs
Sustainability and transformation plan leaders will be given the right to “recommend” member trusts and commissioners reorganise, where the “veto power or inertia” of individual organisations is holding up change, Simon Stevens has said.
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CommentIntegration of health and social care – working and not working?
Integration is looking less and less like a panacea and more of a long term vision
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CommentThe one lesson that the US and UK can learn from each other
Ideological differences between America and the UK don’t mean total incompatibility when it comes to making their systems better
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Bad news warning
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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NewsPeter Homa: I would have stayed to lead merged trust
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust chief says heroic leaders are “redundant” Peter Homa said the share of GDP funding for the NHS needed to rise He urged new leaders to be transparent and to ask for help when needed Peter Homa would have stayed on as chief executive of ...
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NewsTrusts face fines over checking patients' credentials
The Department of Health is considering new rules to enable commissioners to fine acute providers if they fail to check whether a patient is from overseas and eligible or not for free NHS care.
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NewsTrusts given two days to bid for quick turnaround tech funding
NHS England reviewed “capital allocation position” for the remaining two months of 2016-17. Trusts were given two days to express interest, and told the projects would need to be completed by March 2017. Memo was issued on the same day that NHS Improvement told trusts their overall capital ...
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CommentTrade deals with Trump could give the NHS a heart attack
Labour must come to terms with the gains of the Blair years, while the Tories must be wary of the dangers of Uncle Sam
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NewsNew taskforce to 'challenge' weak STP proposals
Joint NHS taskforce set up to challenge weak STP workforce plans NHS Improvement nursing director says staffing is the “weakest” element of the STPs Ruth May warns of divergence between operational plans and STP forecasts A new taskforce will challenge weak workforce proposals in sustainability and transformation plans, ...
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CommentWhy the government should introduce a healthcare spending target
Given the pressures on health spending, there exists the dilemma of setting social care spending on a more sustainable trajectory for the longer term
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HSJ LocalPioneering integrated care deal threatens council's finances
Cipfa finds Torbay carries excessive risk from pioneering health and care partnership
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: The signal and the noise
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern
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HSJ LocalConcerns for frontline services funding under new contract
Bridgewater Community Healthcare FT to take over Liverpool’s community services, after agreeing to deliver the contract on £77m of recurrent funding HSJ understands rival bidder did not believe services could be safely delivered with this amount of funding Liverpool CCG says significant savings are available through “switch off” costs ...