All Finance articles – Page 416
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NewsGreater Glasgow and Clyde to cut 1,200 jobs
A health board has announced it is to cut more than 1,200 jobs in the next 18 months.
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NewsLocal food will save NHS millions
Cooking with locally grown produce could save the NHS £400m, the catering manager at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has claimed.
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HSJ KnowledgeAre foundation trusts underinsured?
Foundation trusts have access to two indemnity schemes designed for the NHS but should ask whether this would be enough in every event, says Jeremy Roper
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NewsLansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration
The new health secretary has said the NHS might face greater efficiency savings than the 3 per cent planned for and that GPs would have a say on hospital reconfiguration.
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NewsConcern over safety of £1.7bn set aside for 'non-recurrent' NHS spending
NHS finance sources are concerned the new government may claw back the £1.7bn set aside for “non-recurrent” spending.
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CommentRichard Barker and Steve Smith: health and wealth are partners
The NHS and life sciences industry have already proven how well they can work together
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NewsNHS Confed trustees ‘misled’ over failed scheme
Financial risks and apparent conflicts of interest related to NHS Employers’ failed membership scheme were missed due to the perception it had an “unstoppable momentum”, a report leaked to HSJ reveals.
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CommentStephen Eames on the NHS leadership race
Research by McKinsey shows companies like to promote the idea that employees are their biggest competitive advantage. Yet most are as unprepared for the challenge of finding, motivating and nurturing talent as they were a decade ago. Why?
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NewsManager suspended on full pay for five years
A senior hospital manager has received £315,000 in salary payments from a trust in Nottingham, after being suspended on full pay for almost five years.
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NewsLansley must focus on prevention and productivity - King's Fund
Andrew Lansley must increase NHS productivity and refocus the service on prevention in order to maintain the quality of services and avoid cuts, the King’s Fund has said.
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NewsNHS budget will increase in real terms, coalition document confirms
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have agreed there will be a real terms spending increase in the NHS budget.
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NewsFree NHS prescriptions should be axed, say public sector chiefs
Free prescriptions and eye tests, along with other universal benefits, must be considered for the axe, public sector chiefs have said.
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NewsControversial London reform left on knife-edge
The election outcome leaves London’s plans for significant cuts in hospital capacity on a knife-edge - and some trusts heading for deficit, HSJ has been told.
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£87m 'black hole' for health board
Health bosses in Wales are facing a £87.5 million budget hole, Wales Online has revealed.
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NewsYoung GPs 'priced out' of practices
Hard-up newly qualified doctors are being priced out of buying into practices because of crippling debt, an accountancy firm has claimed.
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NewsPFI revelation fails to tip balance to Lib Dems in North East battleground seat
Labour’s Roberta Blackman-Woods retained City of Durham after beginning the campaign lauding County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust’s “state of the art £91m hospital”.
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CommentJeremy Taylor on involving patients in hospital closures
It is nearly a year since NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson announced the need for £15bn-£20bn of NHS efficiency savings.
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CommentYour Humble Servant: electioneering
‘We have survived another election campaign with no one promising to save or close us’
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CommentMark Goldman on NHS trust takeovers
Good Hope Hospital’s deeply ingrained culture left it stuck in a rut. What lessons are there for future NHS takeovers?
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LeaderNHS managers are not overpaid – but their rewards must reflect results
Health service managers are comfortable with - or at least resigned to - the paradox of rising public expectation and plunging public regard.