All Finance articles – Page 419
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LeaderNHS medics must face the issue of productivity
Trusts are taking tentative steps into the landmine riddled territory of their consultants’ productivity.
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SNP go on the attack over NHS funding
Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that the NHS in Scotland would suffer at the hands of a “smash and grab” Labour or Tory government.
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NewsBMA cautious over Tory NHS plans
The British Medical Association has given a cautious response to healthcare plans announced in the Conservative Party election manifesto.
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NewsSenior pay: gap narrows in FT board level salary advantage
Board directors at foundation trusts are still leading the “NHS pay league” but the rest of the service is catching up, latest figures have revealed.
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NewsWhat Royal Surrey Foundation Trust sold
Names of products, dosages and units as described in a freedom of information release from Royal Surrey to Health Service Journal, April 2010.
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NewsFT admits selling low-stock drugs
Drugs controversially sold onto the export market by Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust included cancer drugs now listed as in short supply to the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLib Dems unveil manifesto with pledge to cap managers' pay
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their manifesto, pledging to protect frontline NHS services by slashing management budgets, scrapping strategic health authorities and capping managers’ pay.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: A Guide to Payment by Results in the NHS for 2009-10
This guide takes you through the ins and outs, says Jane Udall
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NewsLabour and Tories set out health plans to woo electorate
Both main political parties have launched their manifestos pledging extended 8am-8pm GP opening hours, free choice of hospital providers and an extension of foundation trusts.
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NewsNHS employers hire and fire excessively, says MiP
Rises in salaries earned by NHS chiefs are fuelled by the constant hiring and firing of senior staff, according to Managers in Partnership.
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NewsNick Clegg rules out backing immediate Tory cuts
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said his party would not back a Conservative government that attempted to impose swingeing spending cuts in an emergency budget.
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NewsLabour pledges personalised care revolution
Personalised healthcare tailored to the needs of individual patients is a centrepiece of Labour’s general election manifesto.
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NewsNew finance lead for Barking and Dagenham
NHS Barking and Dagenham has appointed a finance director.
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NewsTories to slash public sector pay
The Tories would slash up to £2bn from the public sector payroll within a year as part of moves to bring the deficit under control, it has been revealed.
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NewsPCT pushes on with community hospital plan
NHS Mid Essex has decided to press on with plans to develop a new community hospital despite the current pressures on public finances.
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NewsAndy Burnham defends hospital closures
The health secretary has defended the closure of some hospital units while criticising Tory plans for the NHS.
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NewsNHS Employers deal still not agreed
The Department of Health has confirmed it is still negotiating its core contract with NHS Employers, a week into the new financial year.
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NewsGP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas
GP practices in the richest areas will be granted a 1.2 per cent increase in their target commissioning budgets this financial year, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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NewsHospital merger benefits questioned
The benefits of hospital mergers are called into question in unpublished findings from a study into links between clinical outcomes and patient numbers.
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CommentMichael White on social care funding and the election
As the election hype went into overdrive after Gordon’s trip to Buck House I got into a tiff with a Conservative chum over the party’s “death tax” poster, the one which wrongfooted Andy Burnham on the delicate question of funding care for the elderly.