All Finance articles – Page 231
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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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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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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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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
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NewsRevealed: FTs' £92m spend on exit packages
Almost one tenth of foundation trusts’ entire £92.4m spend on severance packages last year was paid by a single provider, HSJ analysis reveals
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NewsExclusive: NHS England delays treatment choices after legal threat
NHS England has cancelled key meetings at which it was due to decide whether to fund a series of treatments for serious conditions following a threat of judicial review, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMental health providers face finding £40m to meet new targets
At least half of the additional £80m investment pledged to mental health providers to help them deliver new access targets will come from existing budgets
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NewsFour in 10 GP practices need modernisation
More than 40 per cent of GP practices are unlikely to be capable of providing modern primary care services, according to analysis by construction consultants.
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NewsOOH providers warn over rising indemnity costs
Out of hours providers are struggling to find GPs to cover shifts because of spiralling insurance premiums.
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NewsHunt: Additional funds will be linked to efficiency and tech
Jeremy Hunt has indicated that £1.5bn of additional funding to be allocated to the NHS in 2015-16 will be contingent on hospitals providing plans to become more “efficient and sustainable” and to deliver “a commitment to a paperless NHS by 2018”.
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HSJ LocalProposed merger between Kent CCGs dropped
STRUCTURE: A proposed merger between two clinical commissioning groups in Kent has been dropped following indications from NHS England that CCG mergers will not be supported.
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CommentFour reasons to be optimistic about the future of healthcare
Why the future is looking brighter