All Finance articles – Page 261
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NewsCaseload midwifery 'more cost-effective'
One-to-one maternity care before, during and after childbirth could save the NHS more than £300 per pregnancy, according to new research.
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NewsUPDATED: Monitor questions payment by results for mental health
The mandatory rollout of a national payment by results tariff for mental healthcare providers in 2014-15 has been dropped by Monitor, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBerwick review costs revealed
The Berwick review of patient safety in the NHS cost less than £100,000, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsPersonal budgets mooted for mental health
Care minister Norman Lamb has said he would like to see mental health patients being given personal budgets to pay for care.
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NewsLamb reveals number of integration pioneers
Fifteen integrated care pioneer projects will be announced by the government within the next few months, health minister Norman Lamb has revealed.
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HSJ Local
Parking charges rise at North Staffs
FINANCE: Parking charges are set to rise at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire’s from 1 November for the first time in six years.
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NewsExclusive: CCGs dip into non recurrent fund to stay in the black
Clinical commissioning groups are dipping into funds intended to be set aside for making one-off investments in order to stay in the black, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation emerges in CCGs' efficiency ambition
There is a 23-fold variation in the scale of clinical commissioning groups’ efficiency targets, with at least 11 groups planning to make savings of under 1 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment
Caroline Clarke: NHS must get better at measuring quality
The service needs to define quality and value
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NewsFurther complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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NewsMonitor deputy chair issues warning on failure regime
The outgoing deputy chairman of Monitor today suggested the NHS still did not have an effective failure regime and called on politicians to relinquish ultimate control over what happened to financially failed trusts.
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CommentBad plans - not competition rules - are the obstacle to improvement
Rules will keep mergers in check
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NewsGovernment announces A&E fund winners
The government today announced the allocation of its £250m fund for the trusts thought to be most at risk of failing their accident and emergency targets this winter.
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NewsRoyal college to say hospital reconfiguration is 'inevitable'
Reconfiguration of hospital services is “inevitable” if better standards of hospital care are to be achieved, a major Royal College of Physicians report is expected to say.
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NewsNHS England warning: Monitor's proposals 'could put services at risk'
NHS England has warned that some of Monitor’s proposals for securing fairer competition between NHS and independent sector providers could “put the continuation of certain services at risk”.
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NewsRevised negligence scheme 'will not lead to big price swings'
Plans to scrap discounts on clinical negligence premiums will not lead to “big swings in price”, the chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority has told HSJ.
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NewsRevealed: Hospitals' share of spend grows as GPs' slice shrinks
The proportion of NHS funding spent on hospital care increased in 2012-13, with general practice slightly reducing its share, official figures obtained by HSJ indicate.
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NewsDelays to PM's £100m nursing programme 'politically difficult'
A member of the group overseeing Downing Street’s drive to supply nurses with IT has expressed concern that tight timescales were leading to the exclusion of nurses from the project’s design, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsWarning over short term contracts
The government has issued a warning to hospital trusts that use short-term contracts to avoid paying tax.
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NewsLegacy of care claims liabilities threatens CCGs’ finances
Contingent liabilities in primary care trust accounts rocket to £661m