All Finance articles – Page 437
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NewsNICE rebuffs PCTs’ call to help identify more areas for savings
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has rejected calls to identify more drugs and treatments that should be used less - or not at all - ahead of NHS investment cuts.
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NewsMinisters were warned ahead of Mid Staffordshire approval
Ministers and officials were warned Mid Staffordshire had a precarious business model and had breached its MRSA target by two thirds just eight months before it was authorised as a foundation trust.
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News£25m apprenticeships boost for NHS
Strategic health authorities are to get a £25m boost to offer young people and others NHS apprenticeships.
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NewsPrivate patients 'have full NHS rights'
Private patients have full rights to NHS critical care treatment if required, according to a newly ratified protocol.
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NewsResigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
The chair of an acute trust has resigned, calling on NHS chief executive David Nicholson to investigate the behaviour of East Midlands strategic health authority in pressurising him to meet access targets.
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NewsNHS fraudster escapes jail sentence
The head of orthotics for Nottingham University Hospitals trust has lost his job and been handed a suspended 12 month prison sentence for defrauding the NHS of more than £21,000.
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CommentMichael White on the future of healthcare funding
For a politician in his situation, care services minister Phil Hope was in a remarkably cheerful mood when I caught up with him to find out how well - or badly - his department’s latest green paper had been received.
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NewsMinisters to exert power over Monitor
Health secretary Andy Burnham plans to change the law so ministers can instruct foundation trust regulator Monitor to intervene where organisations are failing.
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NewsNew Horizons policy direction lauded despite missing details
An “aspirational” strategy setting out the next 10 years of mental health policy has been welcomed despite a lack of detail on how it will be achieved.
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Cost of NHS growth revealed
Government spending on public services such as education will need to be cut by as much as 4.5 per cent a year if politicians’ promises to give the NHS real terms growth are met.
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NewsJim Easton to continue Lord Darzi's work on NHS quality
The Department of Health’s new head of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention, Jim Easton, has vowed to “follow through” on Lord Darzi’s commitment to quality.
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CommentPaul Corrigan on commissioning strategy plans
Nearly all primary care trust commissioning strategy plans describe a rationale for their intentions over the next five years. Tailored to the health and healthcare needs of their population, they describe future actions which intend to move activity out of secondary care, and cut emergency admissions and attendance at A&E.
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NewsDepartment of Health has improved but its vision lacks ‘coherence’
The Department of Health has improved the quality of its leadership over the past two years, a Cabinet Office review has found.
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CommentStephen Eames on the need to make changes
Sunday morning and it looks as if it is going to be a hot day - a precursor to a long hot summer dominated by organising surge plans to combat pandemic flu, while digesting the impact of another central initiative on quality, innovation, improvement and productivity, otherwise known as “QIPP”.
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NewsWill the public back the national care service?
The long awaited social care green paper proposes reforms including a new ‘national care service’, but what are the implications and where will the money come from?
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NewsNHS hospital franchise plan gets green light
The running of an NHS hospital is to be franchised out, potentially to a private company, in the first arrangement of its kind.
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Bradford hospitals facing £50m cuts
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust has said it is looking for ways to save £50 million over the next three years.
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NewsNHS budget pledges will squeeze Whitehall
Protecting the NHS budget will mean tax rises and/or spending cuts in other departments, according to the King’s Fund and Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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HSJ KnowledgePowerful chemistry: PCTs under fire for not aiding pharmacy growth
Pharmacists have the potential to deliver a far wider range of services than at present - but the opportunity will be missed if primary care trusts do not act, writes Graham Clews
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NewsTrust foots bill for private ward
A failed private health venture has left a London NHS trust with a multi-million pound bill and no way to pay it.