All Finance articles – Page 24
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NewsICB still waiting for its accounts to be signed off after 19 months
One of England’s biggest integrated care boards is still waiting to have its annual accounts for 2022-23 signed off, 19 months after the end of the financial year.
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NewsRegion ‘going into battle’ over funding changes that could cost it £400m
A region’s finance teams are “going into battle” with NHS England over proposed changes to a funding formula that could cost it around 2 per cent of its total budget.
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CommentHow to bridge the NHS’s gulf on AI adoption
AI is shaping many aspects of our lives, yet the NHS is seemingly impenetrable to its advances – here’s how to close the gulf between policy and implementation
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NewsNHSE employing temporary workers on up to £900 a day
NHS England is employing temporary workers for several years on up to £900 a day, new figures show, well above the level at which trusts looking to bring in interim staff must secure central sign-off.
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NewsStaff at care scandal trust have ‘little left to give’ as spending controls bite
Staff at a scandal-hit trust feel “undervalued and without any autonomy” due to newly imposed financial controls, according to internal emails.
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NewsWinter pressures funding leads to ‘panic buying,’ says CEO
Last-minute national funding to ease winter pressures often leads to “panic buying” and is “not always well spent”, a trust chief executive has said.
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NewsICB accused of ‘attacking patient choice’
An integrated care system has been accused of “attacking patient choice” by allegedly “pressuring” eye care providers to refer more work within the NHS – amid moves nationally to bring more ophthalmology services in-house.
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CommentInvestment in technology and prevention has to be at the heart of the Budget
The upcoming budget will shape NHS funding for 2025-26, balancing immediate health needs with long-term investment in technology, prevention, and a healthier future economy, writes Anita Charlesworth
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NewsNHS estates backlog rises 20% to record high
The cost of eradicating the estates maintenance backlog for NHS trusts rose around 20 per cent to a new record high of nearly £14bn year on year, according to new provisional data.
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NewsRevealed: £18bn bid to complete promised ‘40 new hospitals’
The new hospitals programme has told ministers it needs nearly £6bn annual capital funding for three years to press ahead with building all promised schemes as fast as possible.
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NewsTrust in financial dispute with two ICBs
An ambulance trust has warned it may miss financial targets because it has failed to finalise some commissioning contracts halfway through the year.
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NewsICB faces second lawsuit for patient transport procurement
A health system broke procurement rules when it awarded a patient transport contract to a firm that went bust less than a month after it began providing the service, according to a legal claim brought in the High Court.
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NewsFunding electives over A&E a big risk, says NHS chief
Ministers should consider “how it [will] look to the public” if any new funding for the service is restricted to boosting elective work, in the face of winter pressures destabilising urgent and emergency care.
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NewsPrivate firm wins ‘unsafe’ £300m children’s contract
A major contract for children’s community health services — which incumbents claimed was unsafely cutting costs — has been awarded to a private provider.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ticking timebomb
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss whether the NHS can cut into the elective waiting list this winter. Plus the latest on the state of the service’s estate.
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NewsExclusive: Trust CEOs sound alarm as ‘ministers float plans to cut elective funding’
Ministers are considering “capping” the £3.2bn elective recovery fund this year, senior NHS figures have told HSJ, in a move they warned could derail Labour’s pledge to cut waiting lists – and send NHS finances into further disarray.
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NewsTrust ‘could force us out of business’, claims PFI firm
A private finance initiative company has warned it may go bust if a trust imposes any more fines after “severe” fire safety defects were found at its community hospital run by the firm.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Rethinking the workforce plan
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsUse ‘management discipline’ to keep squeezing pay bill, says NHSE
Trusts and systems must keep squeezing pay costs as winter approaches — despite them cutting around 16,000 posts in the past five months — NHS England has urged.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Watching the watchmen
This week on the HSJ Health Check podcast, guest host Ben Clover and colleagues discuss the future of the Care Quality Commission after a tumultuous period for the inspectorate.