All Finance articles – Page 363
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NewsHead of UK's biggest private provider 'more excited than ever' about NHS reforms
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition in the NHS, and insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals.
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NewsTrust issues 18,600 parking fines in 12 months
More than 18,600 parking penalties were issued by three hospitals during 2010, according to consumer group Which?.
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Western Sussex ploughs £250k into hospital lift refurbishment
COMMERCIAL: The trust is to spend £250,000 this year on refurbishing unreliable lifts at its sites, according to board papers.
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Blackpool and North Lancs to consult on four hospital closures
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts in Blackpool and North Lancashire are preparing to consult local residents on the possible closure of four hospitals across the Fylde coast, board documents reveal.
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NewsNHS waste costing millions of pounds annually
The NHS can save millions of pounds a year on the products it buys by making a concerted effort to tackle waste, MPs have said.
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NewsFoundation trusts give out £5.7m in severance pay-outs
Foundation trusts have spent more than £5.7m on pay-offs to departing staff over the past three years, figures made public today for the first time show.
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NewsHSJ Efficiency Awards extends deadline for finance entries
The inaugural HSJ Efficiency Awards aim to promote organisations who demonstrate strategies and initiatives that have tangibly improved efficiency and cost savings, whilst maintaining the highest levels of patient care and staff morale.
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NewsOnline seminar: driving standards up and costs down
With the advent of commissioning consortia and competition in the NHS, how will standards be improved and costs be driven down? Watch HSJ’s free online seminar now to find out
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Surrey consortium petitions Lansley over handover legal hurdles
COMMERCIAL: A commissioning consortium last week pulled health secretary Andrew Lansley into its struggle to take on commissioning powers from primary care trust NHS Surrey.
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NewsMonitor urges trusts to use service line system
Monitor is encouraging trusts to use service line management to improve quality and control costs, amid evidence that senior management is taking back control of trust finances.
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NewsProviders warn over dangers of PCT ‘war chest’
NHS commissioners are building a “war chest” to fund service reorganisation and deal with financial emergencies. But providers are warning the move risks “unnecessary cuts to jobs and services”.
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NewsPrivate provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
Private healthcare chief executives have remained confident their firms will profit from NHS reform even as political controversy has stalled the Health Bill, a survey shows.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe opportunities 'any qualified provider' can bring to the NHS
Four former private sector leaders now working for the NHS explore how “any qualified provider” can bring the NHS’s entrepreneurial spirit to the surface.
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No evidence for money saving potential of community care pathways
A lack of reliable data on the cost of outpatient and community services is hampering commissioners’ attempts to make efficiency savings by moving care out of the acute sector.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: Monitor is showing a truer picture
“Breathtaking insensitivity” is the alleged failing of David Bennett, Monitor’s new chair, for daring to suggest the 4 per cent target efficiency gain required of the NHS this year, under the Department of Health operating framework, may be just a little understated.
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NewsNPfIT 'should be scrapped' after NAO verdict
Ministers are facing calls to scrap both the National Programme for IT and the agency responsible for managing it, after a damning report concluded that the scheme will not deliver its primary aim or represent value for money.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy innovation in the NHS is attracting European funding programmes
EU funding for healthcare innovation is recognising NHS success in partnership working, says Jenny-Lee Spencer.
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NewsStudy lays bare 'exaggeration' of rise in NHS managers
The extent to which the increase in NHS managers has been “exaggerated” is laid bare in a King’s Fund analysis of workforce statistics.
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals secures £19m working capital facility from Barclays
FINANCE: The financially troubled foundation secured a £19m working capital facility from Barclays in the last days of 2010-11, board papers show.
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NewsDH-commissioned study ranks hospital trusts' efficiency
An unpublished league table produced for the Department of Health has ranked 163 hospital trusts in order of how efficiently they treat inpatients.