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Sheffield Hospitals agrees main contracts
FINANCE: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has agreed contracts with its main commissioners, more than a quarter into 2013-14.
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NewsFTN urges Hunt to prioritise trust sustainability over competition
The Foundation Trust Network has urged Jeremy Hunt to prioritise trusts’ financial and clinical sustainability over concerns relating to competition.
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NewsLabour moots free social care for all
Labour is considering a radical plan to make social care free at the point of need and funded through taxation, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsHospitals 'face £2bn cuts and financial cliff edge' - Nicholson
Hospital funding is set to be cut by £2bn as the NHS faces a potential “financial cliff edge”, NHS England’s chief executive has said.
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CommentAusterity kills – we must invest
Cutting back on health and social care is costing lives and money
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NewsExclusive: Mental health sector hit by beds shortage
Mental health patients requiring urgent hospital admission face long journeys − in some cases hundreds of miles − amid growing evidence of a shortage of beds, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeSheffield shows foresight with new eyecare model
The city CCG’s local leadership programme explained
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CommentPayment by results reform needs vision and realism
The tariff must fit into the new financial reality
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NewsMonitor: NHS must 'change radically' in order to survive
Even if the NHS achieves the highest possible savings it cannot close the £30bn funding gap predicted by 2020-21, a Monitor analysis has predicted.
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NewsMP seeks checks on NHS 'fraudsters'
Convicted fraudsters could infiltrate the NHS unless more is done to ensure that private healthcare providers are subject to the same scrutiny requirements as their public sector rivals, a Labour MP has said.
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NewsEmergency care could move off tariff
Monitor and NHS England are considering moving away from the tariff payment system for emergency and urgent care, it emerged last week.
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NewsTrusts continue to employ leaders 'off payroll'
Some trusts are struggling to comply with new regulations that require them to directly employ senior interim managers and to seek assurance about the tax arrangements of “off-payroll” workers.
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HSJ KnowledgeCommissioning support units must raise their game
How can CSUs secure their future success?
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NewsExclusive: All continuing healthcare patients to have the right to personal budget
The Department of Health has announced it will give all recipients of continuing healthcare the right to have a personal budget, enabling them to commission their own packages of care.
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NewsUnitedHealth UK posts £8.2m loss
UnitedHealth UK recorded a £8.2m loss and a 27 per cent fall in turnover in 2012 - its eleventh loss-making year in a row - the company’s annual accounts reveal.
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HSJ Local
Public money could fund new hospital
CAPITAL SCHEMES A proposed £283m new hospital in the North East could be part-funded with public money after a plan to pay for it it using loans from pension funds was dropped.
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NewsNo NHS pay rise freeze, Neil says
The Scottish government has said it will not freeze pay rises for NHS staff following moves to halt increases south of the border.
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HSJ Local
Nottingham fined over C diff cases
PERFORMANCE: Nottingham University Hospitals Trust faces a fine of approximately £40,000 after exceeding its of clostridium difficile target.
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NewsDelay in pricing plan for new drugs
The introduction of a pricing system for new drugs which attaches greater value to how much they benefit patients is to be delayed until late 2014, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsDelay pay rise until unions agree to contract reform says DH
NHS staff should be denied any pay rise until an agreement is reached to renegotiate terms and conditions for more than 1.3 million workers, the Department of Health has said.