All Finance articles – Page 428
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NewsFoundation trust chair replaced by Monitor
The chair of a financially troubled foundation trust has resigned and a replacement has been appointed by Monitor.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS fraud: how to recover losses
Daniel Purcell explains how to recover losses as part of a counter-fraud strategy
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NewsDrug firm to compensate NHS
Scotland’s health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed a settlement being reached with a pharmaceutical company over alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the supply of drugs to the NHS.
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NewsOutsourcing service ‘will save NHS millions’ on HR, says NHS Employers
NHS Employers is launching a subscription service it hopes will save the NHS “many millions” of pounds by outsourcing human resources functions.
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Councils and NHS urged to drive joint funding
Councils and the NHS should examine how joint funding could help improve health and social care outcomes, according to an Audit Commission report.
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NewsNHS organisations hit staff numbers to save costs
There has been a big jump in the number of NHS organisations planning to cut staff, an HSJ survey has revealed.
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NewsDH to challenge Europe on overseas treatment
The Department of Health is preparing itself for a challenge through the European Court of Justice on the rights of UK citizens to be treated abroad at the NHS’s expense.
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NewsSmoking cessation funding safe following furious letter
The NHS will continue to fund the “most effective smoking cessation intervention in the UK” following a furious letter from dozens of public health bodies and royal colleges.
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NewsHinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
East of England strategic health authority has advertised for a franchisee to take over deficit-hit Hinchingbrooke hospital.
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NewsNorthumberland hospital approved
A new emergency care hospital is to be built in Northumberland after plans were approved at a trust board meeting.
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NewsTories pledge marginal pricing under PbR tariff
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has promised the payment by results tariff would allow “marginal pricing” under a Conservative government.
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NewsPCTs defend closer working with NICE
Primary care trusts and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence have defended a £300,000 a year contract designed to help PCTs influence NICE appraisals.
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NewsHospitals to replace nurses with lower paid assistants to cut costs
A number of NHS hospitals are planning to replace an increasing number of trained nurses with cheaper, unregistered ‘nurses’ paid at a lower rate.
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HSJ Knowledge
Practice based commissioning
With the success of practice based commissioning high on the agenda of the Department of Health and the pivotal role PBC plays in underpinning world class commissioning, it is important for PCT provider arms to understand the potential impact of giving GP practices commissioning power.
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NewsNHS management consultancy spend to be revealed
The amount of money spent by the NHS on external management consultancy will be published next summer after the Department of Health gave in to pressure from MPs.
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NewsTalks begin on direct payment personal health budgets
Care services minister Phil Hope has announced consultations with primary care trusts to consider schemes for direct payment personal health budgets.
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NewsBarts faces fine over IT failures
St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London faces being fined £400,000 a month for missing patient care targets as a result of the troubled NHS IT programme, MPs have heard.
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HSJ KnowledgePublic-private partnerships: getting NHS finance that adds up
Public-private partnership arrangements can be the right alternative to PFI for some trusts’ equipment upgrades, say Stephen Lansdown and Shelley Thomas
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HSJ Knowledge
Cost cutting
As rising demand for services begins to clash with increasingly tight financial constraints, the NHS must plan now for impending 2011 funding restrictions.
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CommentMichael White on public vs private
The line dividing the public sector from the private has been fragmenting for decades.