All Finance articles – Page 383
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NewsShadow health minister attacks children's tariff cut
Shadow health minister John Healey has said planned changes to hospital payments for children’s care could leave some trusts “millions of pounds short of the funding they need”.
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Comment
NHS underspends under the microscope
It is one of the most common dilemmas of NHS financial management. The trust sets an annual expenditure budget. A budget holder underspends - no doubt for excellent reasons - and wants to carry the unspent balance forward into the following financial year.
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NewsNHS estate and hotel services heavily outsourced
Almost one third of NHS estate and hotel service costs are now provided through contracts with the private sector, latest figures show.
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NewsManagers divided over pensions changes
More than half of NHS managers think they should pay more towards their pensions, an HSJ survey has revealed.
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LeaderNHS management challenge stays much the same, rich or poor
On 25 April 2002 HSJ gave its verdict on Gordon Brown’s decision to lavish unprecedented riches on the NHS.
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Comment‘Labour MPs who call the Osborne way Thatcherism Mk II are not up to speed’
It took less than a week for some vociferous supporters of George Osborne’s £81bn spending cuts experiment to get cold feet about the likely consequences for lower economic growth. The government “cannot cut its way to prosperity”, business leaders warned on Monday.
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News'Health outcome bond' pilot to attempt hospital admissions cut
A private company plans to launch a “health outcome bond” to provide NHS commissioners with private investment capital in an effort to cut emergency hospital admissions.
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NewsHospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings
Hospital trusts lost out on income worth approximately £90m during the three months to June as a result of the Department of Health’s policy to restrict funding for emergency admissions.
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NewsCRB vetting cost £70m last year
Health and social care sectors spent almost £70 million vetting their staff last year, figures show.
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NewsDH considers national pay increment freeze
The Department of Health is to examine introducing a national freeze in annual pay increments affecting more than a million NHS staff.
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NewsOutsourcing quotas to drive mixed health services provider market
The Treasury has announced plans to “explore” setting quotas for outsourcing key health services.
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NewsMidlands trusts plan joint pathology service
The 2008 Lord Carter of Coles review of NHS pathology services was the trigger for a steady reconfiguration of the market and consolidation of providers.
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Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend
A Yorkshire primary care trust has suspended contracts with local GPs for simple procedures and returned them to acute settings, as part of immediate measures to address “serious financial pressures”.
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NewsNHS facing £6bn shortfall - Kings Fund
An ageing population and inflation-busting health costs will leave the NHS around £6 billion a year short, despite government promises to protect its funding, a leading think-tank has said.
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NewsPCT halts funding for over 30 procedures to 'remain sustainable'
A Midlands primary care trust has halted funding for a raft of routine procedures, including cataract removal and hip replacements, in order to remain financially viable over the winter.
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NewsCost of pensions spirals by £6,000 a year
NHS managers will have to pay up to £6,000 extra towards their pensions each year under plans mooted by chancellor George Osborne.
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NewsTreasury confirms £5.5bn DH underspends are lost
The respected health thinktank the Nuffield Trust has obtained confirmation the Department of Health will not be given access to the surpluses it has accumulated since 2007-08.
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NewsPublic sector job losses to hit 750,000
The number of public sector jobs to be axed as a result of the spending cuts will be around 750,000 - a quarter of a million more than government estimates, a respected economist has warned.
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Blogs
Spending Review conspiracies
Has the evil Treasury swiped £2.8bn from the NHS’s 2010-11 baseline?
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Comment'Who will own the NHS?'
Somewhere between this week’s spending review and the parliamentary debates on the Health Bill, we will learn where the real balance of power between the commissioning board and GP consortia will lie.