All Finance articles – Page 239
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NewsCall for salary rise for non-foundation trust chairs
A survey of chairs working across the NHS provider sector has found unanimous support for the view that NHS trust chairs are underpaid compared with their foundation trust counterparts.
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CommentElection 2015: The Tory manifesto will be shaped by internal tensions
The Conservatives will need a radical document
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NewsMonitor: 'Clusters' to remain in mental health funding regime
The regulator has sent a strong signal that using ‘patient clusters’ as a means of funding for mental health service will be maintained
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NewsDH expects to lose 85 per cent of overseas visitors and migrants costs
The Department of Health expects to recover up to around 15 per cent of the estimated £2bn of costs shouldered by the NHS for overseas visitors and migrants
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HSJ LocalMonitor takes action at Barnsley Hospital
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust has agreed to draft in outside help and draw up a turnaround plan as part of its response to regulatory intervention by Monitor.
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NewsHunt: Risk sharing will protect hospitals from better care fund failure
Better care fund plans must share risk between hospitals and commissioners to prevent the acute sector losing out if they fail to deliver, Jeremy Hunt has revealed
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CommentCentralisation is crucial to achieve better care locally
The politics must be taken out of the NHS
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NewsBetter care fund gives integration a 'bad name', says Burnham
The government’s better care fund is in danger of giving “integration a bad name” and of tipping the NHS over a financial cliff next year, Andy Burnham has said
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NewsLamb backs legal requirement to pool budgets
Care minister Norman Lamb has today called for a new “legal obligation” to ensure health and social care commissioners pool their budgets as part of a significant expansion of his better care fund project.
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NewsNHS's 'ridiculous' £1bn savings demand sparks care fund worry
The NHS will expect health and wellbeing boards to prove they can save £1bn by joining up health and social care services next year – £300m more than anticipated
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NewsConfederation chief calls for 10-year NHS funding settlement
NHS Confederation chief executive Rob Webster has outlined a package of commitments which he wants politicians of all parties to sign up to before the 2015 general election.
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CommentLet's not kid ourselves, the NHS has to shape its own future
The future will test our resilience
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NewsExclusive: Trusts plan to withhold incremental pay rises
One in three NHS organisations intend to tame their salary bills by withholding pay increments from staff, a survey of senior HR managers indicates.
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NewsOverseas recruitment of nurses to rise amid fears over shortages
The majority of HR directors plan to ramp up the recruitment of nurses this year as many admit their organisations lack the staff to meet demand.
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NewsCCG makes "substantial concessions" in judicial review case
Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has offered to make a series of “substantial” changes to its policy on patient and public engagement as part of a proposed out of court settlement.
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NewsUncertain future for Project Diamond funding
The future of funding for highly specialist treatments in various hospitals has been thrown into uncertainty after the Department of Health decided to stop providing a £62m budget that supplements it.
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NewsSimon Stevens' first interview: the transcript
In in HSJ’s in-depth interview, the NHS England chief executive talks about small hospitals, service reform, NHS funding, competition and much more
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NewsStevens on: Finance and health secretaries
Simon Stevens has indicated the NHS has early plans to meet about half of the looming £30bn gap; and has suggested greater transparency may be driving a trend toward “patient champion” health secretaries.
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NewsReview of 'overdefined' specialised services underway
Responsibility for commissioning some specialised services, such as chemotherapy and renal dialysis, could be handed to clinical commissioning groups as part of an NHS England review.
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HSJ LocalUrgent call for clarification on commissioning rules
COMMERCIAL: A row between commissioners and a private midwifery service in Leeds has sparked calls for “urgent clarification” around commissioning rules.