All Finance articles – Page 267
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NewsAnalysed: The reform of payment by results
In the HSJ Briefing week we examine the proposals for changing NHS payment systems.
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NewsOFT to probe health service IT market
The Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation which will examine the health service IT market.
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NewsCuts threaten councils' viability, says LGA chief
Some councils could cease to exist under the pressures of the latest round of spending cuts.
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CommentThe government double counts its chickens
There are two ways to see the coalition’s social care plan
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NewsHunt considering legislation over regulation of provider mergers
The health secretary is concerned about the role of national competition regulators in relation to NHS provider mergers, and could legislate to change their role, he has said.
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CommentMichael White: an end to health tourism?
The government is making hay from plans to charge foreign NHS visitors
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NewsCCGs could get two year allocations
NHS England is considering giving clinical commissioning groups two year allocations from 2014-15, to enable them to transform services and plan efficiency gains over a period of more than a single year, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to obtain public value in procurement
Challenging traditional methods of healthcare procurement
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NewsMPs attack 'missed opportunity' of consultants contract
NHS hospital consultants are being poorly managed and their 2003 contract was a “missed opportunity” which delivered poor value for money, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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NewsHunt 'prepared to look at' future of foundation trust policy
Health secretary speaks exclusively to HSJ on private healthcare, the purchaser-provider split, and the “bold” reforms to healthcare models needed on the 65th anniversary of the NHS.
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NewsCrackdown expected on NHS tourism
Loopholes that allow migrants to wrongly access free UK health care will be closed under a crackdown on abuse of public services next week, Jeremy Hunt is to announce.
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News10 per cent admin budget cut could leave CCGs 'unsustainable'
The further 10 per cent real-terms cut in health administration budgets revealed in today’s spending review could render some clinical commissioning groups “unsustainable”, NHS commissioners have warned.
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NewsOsborne announces tighter controls on pay progression
Pay progression for most health employees will from 2015-16 be tied “more closely” to their achievement of local performance standards, George Osborne announced today.
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NewsHunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16
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CommentSally Gainsbury: more financial creativity from the DH
Celebrating healthcare’s most imaginative financial minds
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Exclusive: £3.8bn integration fund tied to performance
A chunk of the planned £3.8bn pooled health and social care fund will be held back from local commissioners unless they can demonstrate their investments have brought improvements for patients, HSJ has learned.
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NewsEmails reveal elite hospitals' high level lobbying for extra cash
Emails obtained by HSJ reveal an elite group of teaching hospitals’ lobbying for hundreds of millions in extra funding.
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NewsHowe: Marginal rate for emergency care 'hasn't worked very well'
Health minister Lord Howe this week admitted the controversial 30 per cent marginal rate for emergency care “hasn’t worked very well” to help commissioners and providers ease pressure on emergency departments.
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Exclusive: Surge in hospitals predicting deficits as total exceeds £200m
NHS trusts are predicting a deficit of more than £200m in this financial year, HSJ can reveal.