All Finance articles – Page 217
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HSJ LocalSingle board to share risk across Cambridgeshire health economy
STRUCTURE: Providers and commissioners across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have created a joint board for strategic planning which they hope will ultimately share financial risk across the health economy.
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CommentWaiting list initiative ends with a sprint but achieves little
The waiting list size hardly budged
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NewsMonitor delays controversial tariff decision
Providers will have to wait to see if controversial tariff plans for 2015-16 will be enforced as Monitor wades through hundreds of responses to establish if it received enough formal objections to trigger a new consultation.
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NewsCancer drugs fund will need to cut more treatments, chair warns
Treatments available through the cancer drugs fund will have to continue being cut, the NHS England official in charge of the fund has said.
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NewsCo-commissioning specialised services will lead to 'poorer access', group claims
Plans for NHS England to co-commission specialised services with clinical commissioning groups will lead to ‘poorer access’ because the ‘vast majority’ of services will be exposed to ‘competing local pressures’, a group representing patient organisations has claimed.
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CommentMPs' links with private health companies and why they matter
They are influencing the election
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NewsDirector behind Hinchingbrooke deal defends decision
The former strategic health authority director who led the franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has defended the decision.
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NewsExclusive: NHS children's services 'not fit for purpose'
The NHS’s failure to reconfigure children’s services, has left it with a model of care not fit for purpose, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has told HSJ.
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NewsExclusive: NHS Employers reveals plans to overhaul contracts
Proposals to enable the NHS to deliver seven day services have been unveiled by NHS Employers. It includes an overhaul of medical contracts and how much staff are paid for weekend and evening work.
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NewsCancer drugs fund receives surprise £60m boost
NHS England has announced a surprise £60m boost to the cancer drugs fund, bringing it up to £340m for 2015-16, even as it slashes the number of drugs available.
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NewsNew care model proposals 'must involve patients'
Proposals to develop new health and social care models will need to demonstrate meaningful clinical and patient involvement to get NHS England support, HSJ has been told.
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CommentFunding black hole for specialised services leave CCGs in the dark
Turning the spotlight on specialised services data
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NewsRecord number of patients waiting over 12 hours to be admitted
A record high of 241 patients waited over 12 hours to be admitted last week, according to the latest figures on accident and emergency performance from NHS England.
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NewsTimeline: How HSJ has covered Circle at Hinchingbrooke
For those catching up on the background to the Hinchingbrooke story, here’s a quick guide through HSJ’s coverage of Circle’s involvement over the past four years
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NewsUpdated: Circle to withdraw from Hinchingbrooke contract
Circle Partnership has announced plans to pull out of its 10 year contract to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, the UK’s only privately managed NHS district general hospital.
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NewsMonitor proposes lower threshold for investigations into FT finances
Monitor is consulting on lowering the threshold at which investigations into foundation trusts’ finances can be triggered.
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SupplementsPutting pathology to the test: an HSJ conference
What is the role of diagnostics in a changing NHS?
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LeaderShould specialised services pay the ‘price’ of NHS changes?
Marginal tariff leaves providers short changed
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HSJ LocalTrust hopes for £6m income from new cancer unit
FINANCE: A West Midlands acute trust is hoping to generate £5.9m in extra income per year following the opening of a new £23m cancer treatment unit this month.
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NewsRevealed: the biggest winners from the NHS funding boost
Around half the extra money for clinical commissioning groups from George Osborne’s NHS spending boost will go to just a quarter of groups.