All Finance articles – Page 364
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NewsEthical procurement guide launched by BMA
The British Medical Association has unveiled a new online ethical procurement guide in a bid to improve purchasing habits within the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Britnell responds to 'privatisation' storm
“The vast majority” of NHS care will “always and quite rightly” be provided by “public sector organisations and paid for out of taxation”, according to the man at the heart of a storm over accusations of NHS privatisation.
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News'Listening exercise' delays DH business plan
Fresh uncertainty surrounds the coalition’s NHS reforms after the Department of Health’s business plan was delayed.
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Commissioners put £166.4m contract offer on table for Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT
FINANCE: In March NHS Ashton, Wigan and Leigh was assuming it would spend £166.4m with the foundation in 2011-12, board papers show.
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NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan outlines £13.4m savings plans for 2011-12
FINANCE: The primary care trust has identified £13.4m of “firm savings” it can make to bridge its 2011-12 “funding gap”, board papers show.
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Derby Hospitals takes £0.7m CQUIN hit
FINANCE: NHS Derbyshire County has deducted commissioning for quality and innovation income (CQUIN) from Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust worth £699,000.
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Derby City 'sharing' QIPP savings with consortia
FINANCE: Shadow commissioning budgets in Derbyshire for 2011-12 will allocate quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) savings to GP practices along primary care trust boundaries.
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Sherwood Forest receives £4.28m more income than planned
FINANCE: Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust received £4.28m more income than planned last year due to overactivity.
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NewsCost warning as sickness absence rises
Sickness absence increased slightly last year despite a government drive to replace sick notes with “fit notes”, new research showed today.
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News£1.9bn cut to pay budgets revealed in trust CIPs
NHS providers are planning to cut pay budgets by £1.9bn this year, a study released exclusively to HSJ has revealed.
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PCTs withholding consortia funding, claims NAPC
Primary care trusts could be setting commissioning consortia up to fail by denying them development funding, the National Association of Primary Care has claimed.
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Multimillion pound commissioning support tender suspended
FINANCE: A multi-million pound tender process for development support for commissioning consortia across London has been “suspended indefinitely”.
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General healthcare boss backs price competition
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals, and it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: a cunning plot, outed
The conspiracy theorists were busy earlier this month proposing that Monitor had deliberately “buried” its updated financial assumptions over the bank holiday weekend.
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NewsNHS Blood and Transplant in price freeze pledge
NHS Blood and Transplant has pledged to freeze the price of blood for the next three years.
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Local critical care tariff 'key income risk' for The Christie
FINANCE: The foundation has identified the potential introduction in its area of local tariff prices for critical care as a “key income risk”, its draft plan for 2011-12 shows.
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NewsNHS funding model is no longer 'resilient' - Britnell
Mark Britnell, a member of the group called in to advise prime minister David Cameron on the NHS reforms, writes for HSJ on why a serious debate is needed over the way the NHS is funded.
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CommentMark Britnell: the NHS funding model is no longer 'resilient'
A sophisticated discussion on how – and how much – the health service should be funded is badly needed to avoid undoing two decades worth of progress.
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Barnsley PCT makes early agreement on acute contract
FINANCE: Barnsley PCT has reached early agreement with its main acute provider Barnsley Hospital Foundation Trust for 2011-12, despite financial pressures.
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East Lancs Hospitals Trust agrees £307.5m acute contract for 2011-12
FINANCE: The trust has secured a £307.5m acute services contract for 2011-12, in what it believes to be one of the first contract negotiations for the year concluded in Cumbria or Lancashire.