All Finance articles – Page 3
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NewsBurnham wants NHS savings to help pay for social care
Ministers will look at how much can be saved from NHS budgets by improving adult social care before increasing taxes to fund the reforms, Andy Burnham has said.
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NewsJail for scammer who secured string of NHS management jobs
A scammer who lied to secure 13 NHS management and admin jobs – including at NHS England and NHS Digital – has been jailed for four years.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: The ICB redundancy row
This week we discuss why a £300,000 exit payment to a former ICB CEO has proved so controversial, and how NHS England has tried to justify it.
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CommentThere is no Plan B if we fail on neighbourhood health
Neighbourhood health needs more than policy ambition – it requires smarter investment, better data, and a clear strategy to shift resources from hospitals into community-based care
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NewsICB reorganisation leads to legal battle with supplier
The cancellation of a contract awarded amid the confusion of the government’s hastily announced overhaul of integrated care boards last year has resulted in a supplier taking the NHS to the High Court.
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NewsMake us feel ‘safe’ while we drive reform, ICBs tell NHSE
Greater “air cover” from NHS England and “assurance” that commissioning leaders will not suffer from making difficult decisions has been demanded by integrated care boards.
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NewsSlow down shift to neighbourhoods, says GP leader
Plans to introduce neighbourhood provider contracts next year should be “reconsidered”, the Royal College of GPs’ president has told HSJ.
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NewsNeighbourhood providers to gradually replace PCNs
Integrated care boards will be expected to offer GP practices additional services and funding to drive them to form new “neighbourhood providers” – but will get no new national money to do so.
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NewsTen ICBs accused of blocking access to private care
Private providers have accused 10 integrated care boards of blocking access to eye care, which they argue is redirecting tens of thousands of patients to A&E and GPs.
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CommentWaiting list grows again
The NHS missed its recovery trajectory by 89,000 patient pathways in May
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CommentMinisters must decide between being ‘fair’ or ‘sensible’ on health spending
The NHS says it can improve efficiency and reduce inequality at the same time. In reality, every funding decision prioritises one over the other
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NewsTrusts ‘must use’ new FDP tools, says minister
Trusts will be instructed on federated data platform tools they “must” use, a minister has said – despite ongoing questions about whether the system and its main supplier will be dropped.
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NewsCEO warns against ‘top slicing’ acutes for ‘well meaning’ neighbourhood schemes
Large acute trusts are shouldering unreasonable risk because their funding has been “top sliced” to pay for “well meaning” but unproven “neighbourhood health” schemes, a leading London CEO has told HSJ.
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NewsHold us to account on building homes for staff, says minister
The NHS should hold government to account on delivering a new promise to use private finance to build housing for staff, a health minister has told HSJ.
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CommentCutting the use of agency staff won’t solve the NHS’s workforce woes
The promised new NHS workforce plan offers the opportunity to abandon the ideological focus on cutting agency use as a wonder cure for all staffing costs
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NewsLeague tables ‘obscuring’ trust performance
Government’s trust league tables are “actively obscuring” patients’ understanding of their local services and should be scrapped, a think tank has recommended.
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News‘Failure to deliver reforms has cost NHS billions’, claims ex-DHSC adviser
NHS England’s failure to deliver recommended reforms to pathology services has cost the service billions of pounds in lost savings over the last decade, a senior peer who previously reviewed the sector has claimed.
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PodcastHSJ Podcast: Solving the £20bn productivity puzzle
This week, Dave West and Henry Anderson are joined by health economist Anita Charlesworth, who is co-chairing a commission into NHS productivity for the Health Foundation.
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NewsCapital approvals still ‘very, very elongated’, says CFO
Approval processes for NHS capital spending remain “very, very elongated” – despite promised improvements – an experienced chief finance officer has told MPs.
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NewsPerformance dips after trusts earn bonus cash
Most trusts that earned capital funding for improved A&E waiting times in March saw their performance deteriorate in the months after, HSJ can reveal.