All Finance articles – Page 352
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NewsFT severance payouts to come under scrutiny
The NHS chief executive has promised MPs to do all he can to provide details of severance payouts made by foundation trusts.
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NewsKing's Fund calls to unite health and social care budgets
The government must adopt a single budget for £121bn of health and social care funding to stop the two systems fighting against each other, the King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsMPs told of budget topslicing 'risk'
Providers could face financial difficulties if commissioning consortia decide to topslice their budgets to create risk pools, the Commons health committee has heard.
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NewsChallenged hospitals funds used to bail out PCTs
Nearly 40 per cent of a £392m fund set up to pay off the historic debts of London’s financially challenged organisations has been used to bail out commissioners.
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NewsManagers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.
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CommentYorkshire trusts could soon start to see cracks appear
The NHS in Yorkshire has for years papered over the cracks of financial unsustainability in its second largest organisation, North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust.
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NewsLabour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
Labour has put forward amendments to the Health Bill to remove Monitor’s planned powers as an enforcer of competition law.
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NewsNHS must reverse falling productivity ahead of reforms
Falling NHS productivity must be urgently reversed before planned reforms go ahead, the public accounts committee has said.
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NewsDH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups
A report on the true cost of specialised care has provided fresh evidence that the government bowed to political pressure not to reduce funding to children’s acute services.
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HSJ Local
East Kent Hospitals University FT likely to seek £8m surplus next year
FINANCE: East Kent Hospitals University FT is considering whether to set an £8m surplus target for the next financial year.
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HSJ Local
Cambridge UHFT is £3.2m below its planned surplus for the year
FINANCE: Cambridge University Hospital FT has reported a surplus of over £650,000 for the year to date, £3.2m worse than plan.
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HSJ Local
Lancashire Care behind on financial plan and savings programme
FINANCE: The foundation was £2m behind on its cost improvement savings programme at the end of January, and forecasting that it would not make its planned surplus for the year.
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NewsPublic sector executives face performance reviewed pay
Executives in the public sector should have 10 per cent of their pay held back and awarded only through good performance at the end of the year, under “radical” proposals by a government-commissioned report.
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HSJ Local
Dorset hospital FT heads for £3.1m deficit
FINANCE: Dorset County Hospital is on track to beat its cost improvement plan target for 2010-11 – but has admitted that most of its savings for the year are “non recurrent”.
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NewsDH 'reneging' on cancer drugs fund pledge
The Department of Health stands accused of reneging on a pledge to provide extra money for cancer drugs after admitting the £200m pot will be mainly funded by clawing back primary care trust budgets.
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HSJ Local
Liverpool Heart and Chest among top performers in advancing quality programme
PERFORMANCE: The foundation is on target to receive payments under the North West’s “advancing quality” programme, which offers incentives for quality improvement in five key areas of treatment.
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HSJ Local
Newham PCT on course to beat surplus target
FINANCE: Newham PCT is on course to deliver a surplus of more than £7m this year, exceeding its target by over £1.6m, despite overspends in acute commissioning.
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HSJ Local
NHS Knowsley on track for £1.6m surplus in 2010-11
FINANCE: The primary care trust was reporting a surplus of £1.5m at the end of January, and forecasting it would achieve its planned surplus of £1.6m for 2010-11.
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HSJ Local
St Helens and Knowsley agrees to £1.95m over-performance cap
FINANCE: The trust has agreed to cap the income it will receive for over-performance on its 2010-11 contract with NHS Knowsley at £1.95m.
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HSJ Local
Warwickshire PCT heading for deficit
FINANCE: NHS Warwickshire was overspending by more than £2m with only two months of the financial year remaining.