All Finance articles – Page 241
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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
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NewsExclusive: Details of the £2bn NHS funding boost revealed
The government has announced an extra £1.95bn will be injected into the NHS in 2015-16 - but details of how the money will be allocated, obtained exclusively by HSJ, reveal that only a quarter of the total will be spent on transformation, with the rest set aside to maintain existing ...
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HSJ PartnersComplete our short survey on NHS purchasing
The NHS is facing its biggest financial squeeze in its history over the coming years. It is constantly looking to be more efficient and make savings, but what does procurement look like and how it could be improved?
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NewsParliament gives 'zero harm' bill financial backing
The government has given financial backing to a bill that legislates for zero harm in the NHS and changes the way professional regulators determine fitness to practise.
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NewsCCGs poised to defy pharma by switching to cheaper, unlicensed drug
Clinical commissioning groups across England are mulling the use of an unlicensed drug which could save the NHS millions of pounds, HSJ has learned
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CommentNational tariff must balance risk between national and local commissioners
Harder to work together
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NewsTariff reveals NHS savings targets for 2015-16
NHS pricing authorities will require all providers to deliver another 3.8 per cent in efficiency savings next year, while tweaking the controversial “marginal rate” for emergency admissions to ease the financial strain on smaller hospitals
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HSJ LocalPF2 approvals process 'not fit for purpose', hospital chief warns
COMMERCIAL: The Treasury’s approval process for the private finance 2 programme has been criticised by a hospital chief executive whose trust was forced to halt plans to build a new hospital.