All Finance articles – Page 296
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NewsDH unveils rules for objecting to Monitor tariff proposals
Commissioners will only be able to force Monitor to reconsider its approach to price setting for an NHS service if more than half of them object, under latest Department of Health proposals.
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NewsUnions push back against pay freeze calls
Health unions will push back against calls for a continued pay freeze in the NHS by warning that a third of health service employees have seriously considered leaving their jobs in the past year.
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News£46m pledged for NHS's 'biggest ever' leadership programme
The NHS is to launch the largest ever drive to create a new generation of NHS leaders in a £46m bid to improve productivity and patient outcomes.
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NewsOutsourcer enters healthcare market
Outsourcer MITIE Group has entered the healthcare market by acquiring home care services provider Enara Group for £110.8m, the company has announced.
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NewsTrust plans to dismiss and re-hire 5,500 staff to cut sick pay
A north eastern foundation trust has revealed plans to dismiss and re-hire 5,542 staff to make savings on its sick pay bill, in a move believed to be unprecedented in its scale.
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NewsMonitor and CQC take joint action at Sherwood Forest
Monitor has asked the Care Quality Commission to carry out a “deep dive” probe of patient care at the troubled Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust following the resignation of chair Tracey Doucet.
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NewsDoctors raise concerns over A&E closures
A group of 140 senior doctors have written to David Cameron expressing their alarm over proposals to close and reconfigure accident and emergency units around the country.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge reduces budget deficit
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has reduced its budget deficit, its finance director told the board this month.
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HSJ Local
North Tees takes action on enhanced sick pay
FINANCE: North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has revealed plans to dismiss and re-hire 5,542 staff to scrap unsocial hours sick pay.
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NewsPublic sector tax arrangements under fire
MPs have criticised the tax arrangements of some public sector workers.
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NewsPrivate acute admissions hit record level
Surgical admissions by independent hospitals have hit a record high - driven by NHS admissions rather than spending by private patients - according to a new report.
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Blogs
NHS enterprise has been given a freer rein
Absurd restrictions on FT income have at last been lifted
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NewsHunt cautious on NHS spending plans
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he will not make any commitments to future increases in health spending.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: a new metaphor
Health service chief executives have been fond of likening the balancing of the NHS books to landing a jumbo jet on a postage stamp.
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CommentWhat’s at the heart of integrated care?
We need to agree on what integration means to have any chance of actually providing it
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NewsLondon clusters behind on QIPP savings
Most London primary care trust clusters were behind on their savings plans at the end of the first quarter of this year. The figures were revealed in an internal NHS London document on the progress of local efficiency programmes.
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NewsSerco questions 'bullish' forecasts for community services growth
The managing director of outsourcing giant Serco’s health business has cast doubt on “bullish” forecasts of a rapid expansion of private sector provision of NHS community services.
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Trust bosses call for pay deal changes
HSJ’s disclosure of NHS Employers’ move to extend the pay freeze coincided with a warning from the acute sector that existing pay agreements were unsustainable.
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NewsDH abandons plan to stop 'cherry picking' through tariff change
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to prevent the “cherry picking” of straightforward patients and cases by independent sector providers by making further changes to the payment by results tariff, it has emerged.
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NewsCuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'
Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned.