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NewsMinister dismisses warning of imminent NHS funding crisis
Dan Poulter has rejected warnings from a leading think tank that the NHS could experience a funding crisis before the general election
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation in CCG spend on GP involvement
There is huge variation in the sums clinical commissioning groups have paid in salaries to GPs for their involvement, HSJ analysis has revealed.
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CommentEnglish waiting list tops 3 million, its biggest in six years
The English waiting list is 20 per cent bigger than at the last general election but despite that, long waits have improved under the Coalition. We are now well into the zone where the ‘90 per cent adjusted admitted’ target is at risk
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SupplementsHSJ Top Chief Executives roundtable: The here and now
Identifying the short term challenges facing the sector
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NewsSurgeons call for review of 18 week waiting target
The NHS commitment to carry out routine operations within 18 weeks of referral by a GP should be reviewed, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons said.
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NewsNHS finances 'at tipping point', Nuffield Trust warns
The NHS in England could be in a funding crisis before the next general election, an influential think tank has said.
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NewsStevens calls for local government support on NHS reconfiguration
Simon Stevens has called on local councils to support service reconfiguration in the health service.
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NewsCCGs could co-commission specialised services
Clinical commissioning groups could be handed a role in commissioning a significant chunk of the £14bn specialised services budget, HSJ has learned.
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NewsEconomist suggests health and care require tax increase
The economist leading an independent review of health and social care spending has indicated increased taxation or national insurance are needed to fund them.
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NewsStevens unveils 'radical' personal budgets plan for health and social care
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens will today announce a major programme extending the use of combined health and social care personal budgets.
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NewsRevealed: The biggest specialised services providers
A group of just 19 acute trusts were paid almost half of NHS England’s £11.2bn budget for acute specialised services in 2013-14, exclusive analysis by HSJ revealed.
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NewsNHS England faces 'most difficult budget year'
The health service faces its ‘most difficult’ year in balancing its financial plans, senior NHS England officials warned at a board meeting last week.
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NewsBetter care fund bailout for acute trusts is agreed
Better care fund cash will be used to compensate acute hospitals when local integration initiatives fail to reduce emergency admissions
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NewsHeart specialists lobby for new aortic surgery pricing
Specialist heart hospitals are lobbying Monitor to speed the introduction of new tariffs for aortic surgery, arguing the current national pricing is losing large sums on some complex procedures.
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NewsMonitor 'must get better', says Hodge
The regulator’s effectiveness has been brought into question by the public accounts committee
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CommentInteraction is required to make integration a reality
It needs co-operation between HWB members
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CommentIntegration Summit: Closed doors and outward attitudes tell a story
Hear from the facilitator
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CommentIntegration Summit: Accountability must start with genuine co-production
Commissioners need to build trust among their partners
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NewsExclusive poll: Public fear for the future of free healthcare
Voters fear the principle of free healthcare is in danger and that the NHS is threatened by the private sector, an HSJ/FTI Consulting survey has found
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NewsNHS England struggling to balance £97bn budget
NHS England this week confirmed it had still not managed to set plans to balance its £97bn budget for 2014-15, in what experts saw as a sign that the NHS overall could face financial crisis sooner than expected.