All Finance articles – Page 251
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NewsCommission moots payment for NHS care
Panel led by senior economist aims to challenge distinction between NHS and social care funding
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BMI spared from hospitals sell-off
Britain’s biggest private healthcare provider has been spared from having to sell off seven hospitals after the new competition watchdog heavily watered down plans to shake up the sector.
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NewsTDA budget to grow by 66 per cent as costs of regulation mount
The NHS Trust Development Authority will see its budget grow by two thirds in 2014-15, in the latest indication of the price tag attached to the Department of Health’s new focus on regulation.
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CommentThe charge of the membership brigade
Call for a National Health and Care Service membership fee
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NewsNHS pay deal will cost £150m say employers
The government’s decision to impose a pay deal on NHS staff will nevertheless cost the service an extra £150m a year, NHS Employers has told HSJ.
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CommentProtecting the public purse: how independent will future public spending audits be?
The demise of the Audit Commission
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NewsLabour dubs NHS 111 'fundamentally flawed'
Labour has accused the government of ‘vandalism’ by destroying NHS Direct, which formally closed on March 31.
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CommentGood luck with the new job, Simon. Here's your to-do list…
Experts outline the biggest issues facing the new NHS England chief
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NewsMPs fear for free NHS, survey shows
Politicians have expressed concern that a free NHS may be unsustainable if challenges facing the health service are not addressed.
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NewsLabour lord calls for NHS patient 'membership charge'
A former Labour health minister has called for British citizens to pay a £10 per month “NHS membership charge”, as part of a suite of proposed reforms intended to prevent the health service “starving the rest of the public sector of resources”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Your top ideas: structural changes and funding
Ways to improve care for frail older people
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NewsData video: the deterioration of hospital trust finances
Why are so many hospital trusts facing a deficit?
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NewsExclusive: Mental health providers in dark over choice rules as deadline nears
The government has failed to issue guidance on the operation of a new legal right of choice for mental health patients, ahead of it coming into force next week.
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SupplementsThe power of partnership – an HSJ integrating care supplement
How the latest technology is joing up care
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Leader‘No legacy debt’ pledge does not live up to Lansley’s promise
CCGs have to find funding for continuing care claims
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NewsTreasury claims £650m legacy debt pot
NHS England has admitted that £650m of provisions made by primary care trusts last year to pay for historic continuing healthcare claims will not be available to clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsMinister: Mental health trusts should 'fight' over contracts
A health minister has indicated mental health providers should “fight” contracts with commissioners in cases where they would be “losing out” due to the greater price reduction for the sector specified in controversial national guidance.
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NewsExclusive: Hunt opens door to wider pay reform negotiations
Jeremy Hunt has suggested the government would be willing to drop its call for a freeze on incremental pay progression