All Finance articles – Page 221
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LeaderStevens is dismantling the recent past to make way for the NHS's future
The end of Lansley’s act
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NewsNHS England chief backs Monitor-TDA merger
Simon Stevens believes the NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor should be merged.
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NewsExclusive: Stevens moves to sidestep pricing rules after provider revolt
Trusts will be asked to accept a new ‘voluntary’ tariff for 2015-16 after the formal price setting process was thrown into uncertainty and delay by a provider revolt, Simon Stevens has proposed.
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NewsNHS managers face jail for publishing misleading information
NHS managers who publish false or misleading information could face up to two years in prison under new laws set to be confirmed by ministers this week, HSJ has learned.
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News£35m nursing tech fund shared among 60 bidders
More than 60 bids by NHS and other care providers have received a share of the second tranche of nursing technology fund, an NHS England director has told HSJ.
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News£1.2m fund for volunteers to help under pressure A&Es
Trusts will be given an extra £1.2m to fund 700 volunteers to help ease pressures on accident and emergency departments.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Memo reveals trust forced to 'scale back' specialist service
Emergency patients at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who are in need of specialist dermatology treatment could be forced to wait more than a day to be seen, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCoalition health reforms 'damaging and distracting', says think tank
The coalition government’s flagship legislation on health was ‘damaging and distracting’, and ‘historians will not be kind in their assessment’ of its record on NHS reform, an influential think tank has claimed.
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NewsExclusive: 'Monopoly' fears over £350m scans contract
The decision to award a 10 year contract covering more than half of England’s PET-CT imaging service to a single company has created a ‘monopoly’ that could damage NHS interests, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ LocalNottingham trust submits plans to build helipad
CAPITAL SCHEMES: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has submitted plans to build a helipad and a multistorey car park at its Queen’s Medical Centre site.
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LeaderAusterity has stretched the tariff's credibility to breaking point
The NHS has lunged into a messy struggle
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NewsExclusive: Top national official attacked tariff plans over 'quality' risk
One of the most senior national NHS finance officials attacked the 2015-16 pricing proposals which have been put forward by his counterparts at other arm’s length bodies, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentMake parity a reality, not an afterthought
Bringing mental healthcare on a par with physical healthcare
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NewsExclusive: Consultants' leader calls for 'sensible' seven day working proposals
Higher patient mortality at weekends needs to be tackled but proposals for seven day working must be ‘sensible and realistic’, the chair of the British Medical Association consultants committee has told HSJ.
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NewsNumber of NHS nursing staff hits record levels
The numbers of qualified nursing staff recruited by the NHS in England has reached record levels, with numbers increasing by more than 3,000 in a single month.
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NewsHinchingbrooke £7.2m in the red
Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust posted a £7.2m deficit for the first eight months of the 2014-15 financial year, according to figures published last week which give the fullest indication to date of the hospital’s financial problems.
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HSJ Local
Southport and Ormskirk to commission ‘sustainability’ review
PERFORMANCE: Southport and Ormskirk Hospital Trust is planning an external review of options for the ‘sustainability of the trust’, with forecasts showing deficits for both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
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NewsUpdated: Hospital objections scupper controversial 2015-16 pricing plans
The NHS will go into what is expected to be its toughest financial year yet with no nationally agreed set of prices for services, after controversial 2015-16 tariff proposals were resoundingly rejected by the dominant providers.