All Finance articles – Page 291
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NewsWest Midlands trust set to benefit from new-style PFI
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust is among the first NHS bodies to use the revamped private finance initiative which will be launched tomorrow.
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NewsCommissioners 'bombarded' with care cost claims
Primary care trusts are each facing millions of pounds of unexpected costs after being “bombarded” with retrospective NHS Continuing Care claims, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAnalysed: Ambulance service performance
We look at moves to improve the ambulance service’s performance amid relentless rising demand, though no extra money is available
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NewsSeven day consultant working 'will require more resources'
The introduction of seven-day consultant care will require more resources and changes to tariff as well as a major reconfiguration of services, medical leaders have claimed.
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NewsNHS 'faces decade of cash squeeze'
The financial squeeze facing the NHS is set to last for a decade, according to a report by the Nuffield Trust.
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NewsCommentary: Quality can be achieved while keeping costs low
The financial pressures on the NHS mean that it is no longer enough to simply look at the quality of care provided by our hospitals
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NewsDistrict general hospitals top efficiency league
District general hospitals are the most clinically efficient in the NHS, a major study has revealed.
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NewsFamily GP firm named preferred bidder for 20 practices
A company run by husband and wife GPs has been named as preferred bidder to run 20 practices in Liverpool and Sefton.
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NewsDH announces personal health budget rollout
The Department of Health has announced the further rollout of personal health budgets.
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NewsDH awards audit contracts to HQIP
The Department of Health has chosen to entrust two audit contracts with The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).
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News‘Urgent action’ needed in Peterborough, says NAO
Urgent action must be taken by regulators, ministers and local managers if Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals Foundation Trust is to avoid going bust, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Technology sidelined in QIPP plans
Only one in six local NHS innovation and efficiency schemes explicitly mentions adopting or extending the use of new technologies, HSJ analysis reveals.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: cold comfort from 'reassurance'
The government’s “assurances” need looking at closely
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HSJ Local
Hospital could be transferred to community ownership
Monitor has agreed to examine proposals to transfer a hospital site, currently part of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, to local community ownership.
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NewsCSUs frustrated by lack of clarity on funding
Commissioning support units are frustrated by an ongoing lack of clarity over how much income they will receive from the NHS Commissioning Board, HSJ has learned.
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NewsFailings in mental health crisis care exposed
Two fifths of NHS mental health trusts do not have enough staff to offer adequate care to people suffering a mental health crisis, it has emerged.
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HSJ KnowledgeAll aboard for NHS exports?
The are potentially significant rewards for NHS organisations expanding overseas, but there are also risks
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'Significant' risk in specialised services upheaval, says board
The new commissioning system for the £12bn specialist services budget in 2013-14 will be “radically different” but its introduction involves a “significant” risk, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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NewsRestrict friends and family test to hospitals, says DH
The new friends and family patient satisfaction test should initially be largely restricted to acute care settings rather than rolled out universally, according to a Department of Health cost-benefit analysis.
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NewsPatients should pay for 'lifestyle' diseases - Tory MP
Patients suffering from diseases caused by “lifestyle choices” such as diabetes should pay for their medication to help save the NHS from collapse, a Tory GP has urged.