All Finance articles – Page 42
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: The capital’s most challenged service
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsNHS backlogs push cancer firm past £100m revenue
NHS cancer backlogs drove an increase in patients going private, an Australian-owned provider has revealed as it announced continued revenue growth.
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NewsMajor incident unit faces possible closure
The future of a specialist ambulance unit responsible for responding to major incidents such as terrorist attacks is in question following ongoing delay in putting its new contract out to tender.
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CommentThe critical role of NHS finance directors in patient safety
There are challenging misconceptions about NHS finance directors that highlight their vital role in enhancing patient safety and healthcare value, writes Emma Knowles
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HSJ PartnersMobilising Health and Social Care Data to Reduce Health Inequalities
The April 2023 publication of the Hewitt review, an independent, government-commissioned review of integrated care systems in the UK, revealed staggering statistics relating to the financial and social impact of health inequalities. Defined by the NHS as “unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups ...
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NewsSenior managers’ pay rise delayed until at least November
Senior managers will not get their 5 per cent pay uplift for 2023-24 until at least November, with unions describing a slow sign-off process as “making a mountain out of a molehill”.
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NewsUnforeseen post-covid demand is driving overspending, says trust chief
A trust chief executive has said ongoing and unforeseen demand from children needing mental healthcare in the wake of the pandemic is driving overspending.
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NewsFinance directors need to do more to keep patients safe, warns watchdog
Financial directors need to take responsibility for safety, which should be at the core of how the NHS runs services, the leadership of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body said at its launch yesterday.
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NewsTrust’s £9m gift to charity reveals governance ‘weakness’
A trust donated £9m to its charity without the permission of NHS England or the Treasury.
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News‘Management bandwidth’ is slowing integration, says minister
Integration is being slowed down in some areas by a lack of ‘management bandwidth’ in systems dealing with competing pressures, a minister has said.
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CommentLabour will throw everything but money at the NHS
The shadow health minister Wes Streeting sets out a bold vision of a reformed health service not run by a Conservative government. As told to Julian Patterson
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HSJ LocalNHS ‘net zero’ push endangered by lack of funding, claims trust
A major hospital trust which was the first NHS organisation to declare a ‘climate emergency’ has said lack of national funding is undermining the ‘transformational change’ needed for the service to achieve its net zero targets
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NewsTeaching trust accused of unfair treatment by supplier
A major London teaching trust has seen its decision to award a five-year waste management contract challenged by an unsuccessful bidder.
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Expert BriefingRecovery Watch: What backlog recovery could look like under Labour
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: Death during the 'Christmas Day' strikes
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsTreasury ‘legitimately sceptical of DHSC and NHSE’, claims Streeting
The shadow health secretary has called the relationship between the Treasury, NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care ‘appalling’, adding he will address HMT’s ‘legitimate scepticism’ about health spending if Labour wins power.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: There’s no ‘reset’ for ICS finances
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsAgency profits growing due to ‘acute shortage of staff’
Two companies supplying staff to the NHS saw large growth in income and profits last year, annual accounts reveal.
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NewsNHS spends ‘an awful lot’ on management consultants, says shadow minister
A Labour shadow minister has criticised the NHS spending an ‘awful lot of money’ on management consultants, saying it is frustrating for other managers that ‘big firms’ are brought in when major problems arise.
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NewsNHS Providers boss: Tackle consultant strikes to unlock progress on juniors
Ministers should focus on resolving the consultants’ pay dispute first, and use an agreement to help facilitate a deal with the junior doctors, NHS Providers’ boss Julian Hartley has told HSJ.