All Finance articles – Page 432
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NewsPatient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?
The health secretary’s promise of a greater focus on patient experience has the approval of NHS leaders - as long as it is done properly, reports Rebecca Evans
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CommentMichael White on NHS spending cuts
Gordon Brown’s belated admission of looming spending cuts unleashed a masochistic torrent of bid and counter-bid by leading politicians.
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CommentMedia Watch: NHS cost cutting
At the start of last week, the papers were obsessed with Gordon Brown’s first use of the C-word. By the end of the week politicians of all hues were at it and it was impossible to get away from it.
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CommentGary Belfield on world class commissioning
World class commissioning is not a status to be achieved and retained but an ongoing process of improvement which has patients’ changing needs at its heart
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NewsMonitor: foundation trust approval process ‘has saved NHS millions’
Foundation trust regulator Monitor claims it has saved the NHS millions of pounds by maintaining its high bar for approving providers for foundation status.
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NewsSurgery productivity tool could save trusts £1.6m a year
Trusts could save over £1.5m a year by implementing a programme that encourages operating theatre staff to work more productively.
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NewsNHS job cut warning: a 1 per cent pay increase equals 10,000 jobs
Senior NHS managers have called for a pay freeze from 2011 together with a “fundamental review” of staff terms and conditions in the face of expected financial constraints.
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HSJ Knowledge
Financial benchmarking tools
It may not be possible for primary care trusts to become cost efficient overnight, but healthcare actuaries are developing financial diagnostic tools to identify readily achievable cost savings and focus scarce resources in overstretched budgets to achieve the greatest return.
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NewsWorld class commissioning: efficiency made a core competency
Assessing how effectively NHS commissioners spend their funding receives greater importance in the latest government guidance on world class commissioning.
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NewsSHAs seek control of senior managers' pay, MiP claims
Some strategic health authorities will try to dictate the pay of senior managers on their patch despite new guidance, their union has warned.
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NHS 'not ready for budget cuts'
At least 84 per cent of NHS financial directors are ill-prepared for the cost cutting programme the government has embarked on, a study has claimed.
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NewsScrap strategic health authorities, say Lib Dems
Halving the size of the Department of Health and scrapping strategic health authorities are among Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb’s proposals for cutting public spending.
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News2.6 per cent increase to Scottish health budget
NHS Scotland will receive a revenue funding increase of 2.6 per cent next financial year under the government’s budget, but its capital budget will decrease slightly.
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NewsGPs ‘acting as debt counsellors’
GPs are being forced to act as debt counsellors as poor mental health is made worse by financial problems, according to the London Health Forum.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Labour’s mistakes
Heat rather than light has been the main output of this summer’s transatlantic healthcare comparisons.
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NewsSpending on maternity 'now increasing'
Hospital trusts are significantly increasing their maternity spending for the first time in several years, according to research by the Royal College of Midwives.
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NewsIncentive paradox dogs weight loss procedures
Despite NICE guidance, the fatter you get and the poorer your health outlook the better your chances may be of accessing bariatric surgery. Alison Moore reports on criteria that are proving hard to standardise across commissioning groups
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NewsNursing union considers performance-related pay
The Royal College of Nursing has conceded that nurse pay may in future need to be linked to individual performance as the NHS attempts to make huge efficiency savings over the next three years.
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NewsCommissioners must use more 'nous'
Local managers will have to “use a bit more nous” when commissioning services in order to ride out the recession, according to health minister Mike O’Brien.