All Finance articles – Page 17
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NewsICB faces second lawsuit for patient transport procurement
A health system broke procurement rules when it awarded a patient transport contract to a firm that went bust less than a month after it began providing the service, according to a legal claim brought in the High Court.
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NewsFunding electives over A&E a big risk, says NHS chief
Ministers should consider “how it [will] look to the public” if any new funding for the service is restricted to boosting elective work, in the face of winter pressures destabilising urgent and emergency care.
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NewsPrivate firm wins ‘unsafe’ £300m children’s contract
A major contract for children’s community health services — which incumbents claimed was unsafely cutting costs — has been awarded to a private provider.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ticking timebomb
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss whether the NHS can cut into the elective waiting list this winter. Plus the latest on the state of the service’s estate.
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NewsExclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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NewsTrust ‘could force us out of business’, claims PFI firm
A private finance initiative company has warned it may go bust if a trust imposes any more fines after “severe” fire safety defects were found at its community hospital run by the firm.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Rethinking the workforce plan
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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NewsUse ‘management discipline’ to keep squeezing pay bill, says NHSE
Trusts and systems must keep squeezing pay costs as winter approaches — despite them cutting around 16,000 posts in the past five months — NHS England has urged.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.
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NewsNHS England director warns ‘we can’t surge beds and capacity’ this winter
An NHS England director has warned the health service will not be able to create the same extra capacity used to get through winter in previous years, adding to concerns about performance and safety pressures in coming months.
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NewsTrust to limit ‘non-essential’ CT scans as deficit rises
A Yorkshire acute trust is reviewing its use of diagnostic scans with a view to “limiting non-essential procedures” as it tries to bring down its deficit, according to internal messages sent to staff.
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HSJ Local‘NHSE delay’ leaves ICB spending £1m on staff stuck in defunct roles
An integrated care board has apologised to dozens of staff who have waited months for redundancy packages, apparently due to NHS England delaying their approval.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE is ‘trying to hide the reality’ of health service finances
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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NewsTrust CEO warns ‘I can’t afford people’ despite missing NHSE target
An ambulance trust which will fail to meet a key target for treating patients with life-threatening conditions this year has delayed recruitment of additional staff due to cost pressures.
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NewsNHS set to breach planned annual deficit in five months
Local NHS bodies have burned through almost all of their annual deficit target in just the first four months of the year, analysis of the latest finance reports by HSJ shows.
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CommentA sudden flow of funding into primary and community care would not work
To bring about a paradigm shift in the model of care, the NHS needs a radical change from short-term to long-term thinking, writes Joe McManners
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ‘NHS is broken’ blowback
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the Labour Party conference plus some alarming developments in IT.
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NewsSystems slashing plans vital to government reforms
Tight finances are forcing integrated care systems into short-term cuts that will undermine ministers’ reform agenda and longer-term financial sustainability, local leaders have warned.
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NewsStreeting ‘thinking deeply’ about overhauling NHS funding flows
The new government is “thinking deeply” about reforming NHS financial flows and incentives, Wes Streeting has said.
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NewsLabour will end NHS ‘custom’ of raiding dental budgets, says minister
Stephen Kinnock says dental contract is “absurd” and “dysfunctional” Poor-performing ICBs need to “up their game”, says senior dentist Expert says it is “custom and practice” for NHS to divert dentistry money elsewhere Every penny of dental funding will be spent once the Labour government has carried out ...