All Finance articles – Page 250
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CommentCommissioners must take the long view in neurological care
The funding of services requires vision
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NewsArea teams told tariff deflator is non-negotiable
NHS England has told its local area teams they must impose a lower tariff price for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts. This is despite it previously indicating that clinical commissioning groups had the freedom to devise their own tariff level.
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CommentPolicymakers must keep their eyes on the prize of care.data
The benefits of big data remain great
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NewsFTs and commissioners at odds over funding
There is a £202m discrepancy between what foundation trusts think they are owed by commissioners, and what commissioners think they owe them, Monitor has revealed.
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NewsExclusive: Dismay over moratorium on mental health commissioning
An NHS England moratorium on commissioning new specialist mental health services has exacerbated the sector’s bed shortage and led to a newly constructed hospital unit standing empty for six months, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNAO: Monitor delivers 'value for money'
Monitor’s capacity to regulate foundation trusts in difficulty may come under “unsustainable pressure” due to the growth in risk across the sector, the National Audit Office has found.
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NewsFoundation trusts overspend on agency staff
The foundation trust sector massively overspent on contract and agency staff in the final three months of last year, Monitor data shows.
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NewsExclusive: Employers chief moots end to pay restraint
The head of NHS Employers has used an HSJ article to call for a debate about how to ensure a “smooth exit” from the era of health service pay restraint and possibly introduce a “living wage”.
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HSJ LocalTrust faces fine after safety case
The NHS trust that runs Stafford Hospital will be sentenced on today for safety breaches which led to the death of a diabetic patient in 2007.
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NewsOne hundred practices 'may shut amid cuts'
Around 100 GP practices could be forced to close due to cuts in national funding, leaving patients in rural areas without a GP, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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CommentHunt and Burnham are failing to tell their NHS story
Both are being restrained in the run-up to election
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HSJ KnowledgeThe impact of the better care fund on CCGs explained
Diverting billions into integrated care has huge implications
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CSUs can make radical change run smoothly
CSUs can be honest brokers across the system
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NewsInformation centre should audit waiting times data, say health leaders
Health leaders have called for an Audit Commission-style body to perform spot checks and external monitoring of waiting times data to ensure its accuracy.
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CommentSometimes the NHS needs a sensible spot of panic
We need to kick up a fuss over old problems
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NewsLiquidity problems forced trust to abandon George Eliot bid
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust was forced to leave the bidding process to run nearby George Eliot Hospital due to financial concerns, HSJ understands.
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NewsExclusive: Mental health trust threatens legal challenge over tariff
A mental health trust has told HSJ it is considering a legal challenge against the decision by NHS England and Monitor to impose 20 per cent higher cuts for mental health and community providers than for their acute counterparts.