All Finance articles – Page 226
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HSJ LocalNEW Devon drops plans to restrict surgery for smokers and obese patients
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group has dropped controversial ‘rationing’ plans that would have restricted elective surgery to smokers and obese patients.
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CommentReshape guidelines on body contouring surgery to best treat obese patients
After weight loss surgery
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NewsMonitor costing regime promises to 'reduce burden' on trusts
Providers of NHS services are to simplify the way they submit patient level reference cost data to national bodies, under proposals from the regulator Monitor designed to improve comparisons between providers.
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Exclusive: Agency pay variations revealed
Hospitals across the North West paid the highest rates for locum medical staff, an analysis of expenditure on temporary staff in 2013-14 has indicated.
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NewsCarter's procurement review to scrutinise temporary staff costs
A government backed review of NHS procurement has been expanded to examine the “concerning” rise in temporary staff bills, its head has revealed to HSJ.
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NewsStevens: Increased NHS budget will boost underfunded CCGs
Simon Stevens has indicated CCGs that are behind their target funding allocations will receive greater shares of the additional NHS funding announced by the government
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News'Success regime' will direct struggling areas to new models, Stevens reveals
National officials will create a ‘success regime’ in which struggling areas are directed to move quickly into the new care models proposed in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Simon Stevens has revealed, while warning local leaders against attempts to ‘re-spray’ their existing plans.
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CommentThe better care fund needs to be stripped of bureaucracy
Better care fund needs a bureaucratic enema
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NewsAvoid financial ‘arms race’, warns watchdog boss
Providers and commissioners should end the escalating “arms race” that threatens the sustainability of their health systems, the NHS Trust Development Authority finance director has warned
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NewsCommissioners brace for key ruling on patient data access
Southend Clinical Commissioning Group has made a crucial submission to the Confidentiality Advisory Group which NHS England hopes will help overcome a major barrier to integrating health and social care.
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NewsExclusive interview: Dalton sets out plan to restart FT pipeline
Sir David Dalton has predicted that ‘every single’ NHS provider in England will be touched by the options for organisational change described in his government commissioned review
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HSJ KnowledgeUsing the building blocks of joined up care
Projects across the country delivering integrated care
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HSJ LocalNEW Devon imposes widespread restrictions on smokers and obese patients
Morbidly obese patients in most of Devon will have to lose up to 5 per cent of their weight before undergoing any elective surgery, under plans confirmed by the country’s largest clinical commissioning group.
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CommentTackling the weighty problem of obese patients without the scalpel
Surgery often leads to further weight gain
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SupplementsRedefining innovation: Cutting tech doesn't scan
Ageing imaging equipment is cause for concern
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NewsAutumn statement confirms increase in NHS spending
Experts estimate that the additional NHS funding outlined in the autumn statement amounts to a 1.5 per cent real terms increase in 2015-16
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NewsChancellor warns of further public sector pay restraint
Pay restraint for public sector staff including NHS workers will continue into the next parliament, chancellor George Osborne told MPs today.
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NewsTrusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year