All Finance articles – Page 305
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CommentLessons from the world of payments
Policy makers overestimate the power of the tariff system, says Nigel Edwards
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NewsNHS urged to think long-term to save
NHS organisations need to think more long term to innovate and release more savings, NHS South of England chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers has said.
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NewsFTs expect CCGs to reverse activity growth next year
Foundation trusts expect clinical commissioning groups to oversee an unprecedented reduction in activity in 2013-14, Monitor has revealed.
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News12,000 NHS posts unfilled
More than 12,000 NHS job posts have not been filled after people have retired, quit or moved on to other organisations, figures suggest.
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NewsNHS on course to lose pensions advantage
The NHS’s competitive advantage is set to be significantly weakened by a move to offer the NHS pension to all private sector staff working on clinical contracts funded by the service.
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HSJ Local
Newcastle FT more than doubles its recycling
COMMERCIAL: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has more than doubled the amount of waste it recycles in less than a year following a new waste deal.
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NewsPlans to ramp up NHS overseas branches
NHS hospitals are to be invited by the government to set up profit-making branches abroad to raise funds for patients at home and raise the international profile of the health service.
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NewsPrivate providers in NHS 'likely' to escape toughest regulatory controls
Only a “very small” number of NHS services provided by private firms face the toughest regulatory controls, sector leaders have insisted following the publication of new Monitor guidance.
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NewsNo fault compensation plan examined in Scotland
Patients in Scotland could be able to get compensation payouts on a no-fault basis if they are injured as a result of medical treatment.
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NewsOFT investigates NHS hospitals sharing price data
The Office of Fair Trading has obtained assurances from eight NHS trusts that they will cease sharing commercially sensitive information about their private patient unit prices, it revealed this morning.
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NewsPoorer areas 'hit harder by alcohol'
Poorer communities have substantially higher levels of alcohol-related ill health, anti-social behaviour and premature deaths than their wealthier neighbours, research suggests.
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NewsDH unveils licensing and competition plans
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor will have the power to direct commissioners to “withdraw or vary” tenders that breach competition rules, under regulations proposed by the Department of Health.
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CommentUniting voices in epilepsy treatment
Patients and clinicians can lead in standard and availability of neurosurgical options
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HSJ KnowledgePassport to improved patient experience
New document aimed at getting patients involved in their care
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Cost revealed of PR battle over children's heart surgery
The public relations battle between the NHS and trusts that stood to lose services under the national reconfiguration of paediatric heart surgery cost nearly three-quarters of a million pounds, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsRegulator grants conditional approval for ground-breaking PFI buyout
An NHS foundation trust has been given conditional approval for a “novel and contentious” plan to buy out its private finance initiative contracts with a £120m loan from a local authority.
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NewsCataract surgery restrictions criticised
Sight-saving surgery is being wrongly restricted due to cost-cutting measures, it has been claimed.
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NewsNicholson orders trusts to offer approved drugs
All NHS organisations have been ordered to publish details of which drugs they will routinely fund in a bid to make sure patients get medicines they are legally entitled to.