All Finance articles – Page 332
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NewsEighty trusts call in lawyers over board level exits
Nearly 80 NHS organisations have employed law firms to deal with the departure of board members over the past five years, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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HSJ Local
New finance director for North Staffordshire
WORKFORCE: The trust has appointed a new finance director to start in September.
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HSJ Local
Royal Wolverhampton predicts £2.6m debt
FINANCE: Board papers reveal that the Royal Wolverhampton hospitals trust is likely to overspend by £2.6m this year.
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OFT issues warning on private providers' sweetener payments to consultants
The incentives used by private healthcare providers to attract consultants to their hospitals may be driving up prices without increasing quality, the Office for Fair Trading has warned.
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NewsExclusive: Medics resist plan to attach pay to PROMs
One of the country’s leading clinicians has claimed a flagship government policy to link payment by results to the quality of outcomes could deny care to those “who need it most”.
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HSJ Local
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT records deficit for Q1
FINANCE: The foundation recorded a deficit of £424,000 for the first three months of 2011-12, against plans to have made a surplus of £11,900 by that point in the financial year.
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NewsPCTs told to provide accounts for cash transferred to councils
Primary care trusts have been told to report how funding transferred to councils for integrated health and social care activities is being spent.
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News£2bn costs warning over growing obesity cases
A potential 26 million people living in the UK could be suffering from obesity in less than 20 years, clinical researchers have predicted.
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NewsDiabetes medication costing NHS £725m a year
Drugs to treat people with diabetes now take up almost a tenth of the entire NHS budget for medicine, new data released by the service’s information division shows.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: PROMs prove McKinsey right - nearly
The latest crop of patient reported outcome measures confirm huge numbers of patients do not feel any better after undergoing one of four measuredprocedures, and quite a few report feeling worse.
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News'Crude' spending estimates risk CCGs' funding
Future commissioners could face “catastrophic consequences” if a rushed attempt to map current spending on GP practice populations leads to inaccurate funding allocations, experts have warned.
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Trust access to PFI funding could be constrained by Treasury rule change
NHS trusts could find it harder to secure badly needed private finance initiative funding after chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander ordered the Department of Health to review how it authorises potential schemes, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
PFI deals should be used 'sparingly', Treasury warns
FINANCE: The government is in danger of wasting £175m on the private finance initiative rebuild at Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the Treasury select committee has warned.
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HSJ Local
Aintree University Hospitals plans to cut 600 posts by 2014
WORKFORCE: The foundation trust has set itself a target of reducing headcount by 200 whole time equivalent posts each year until 2014, its three year plan shows.
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HSJ Local
Countess of Chester to shed 6 per cent of staff over three years
WORKFORCE: The foundation has forecast that it will reduce its workforce by an estimated 189.51 whole time equivalent posts by 2013-14, its newly published three year plan shows.
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HSJ Local
NHS Croydon plans £3.4m disinvestment in mental health services
FINANCE: The south London commissioning organisation is planning a total disinvestment of £3.4m on its block contract with its local mental health trust over the current and next two financial years.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy sustainable health services are key to the future of healthcare
Sustainability means more than turning down the thermostat or installing bike racks. David Pencheon argues the NHS must change the way it delivers care if sustainability is to be a successful long term commitment.
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HSJ KnowledgeA hire price to pay: how leasing equipment saves money and improves service quality
In times of plenty, the financing rules made outright purchase the most obvious source of new investment. But dwindling capital means leasing equipment may improve care quality and finances, say Louise Hamilton and Bob Dredge.
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NewsSliding admissions contributed to Southern Cross crisis
The collapsed care home operator Southern Cross was experiencing falling admissions on top of its financial troubles just before its decision to close down, figures have shown.
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NewsPFI needs 'substantial' reform, warn MPs
The private finance initiative “cannot be relied upon to provide value for money” and requires “substantial” reform, MPs have said.