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NewsPCTs call for tariff and GP contract reforms
Radical reworking of the payment by results tariff and the GP contract is needed to make the savings required in the financial downturn, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsNHS survival may depend on a ‘series of big changes’
The NHS may not survive unless dramatic action is taken to manage investment cuts, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsFT chair slates ‘barking mad’ duplication
Trusts should be able to show regulators a “yellow card” if they duplicate information requests, the NHS Confederation has claimed.
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NewsManagement consultant costs to be laid bare
The daily rates of a management consultants employed by NHS organisations could soon be published.
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NewsAndy Burnham: don't sideline NHS quality
Raising the quality of services is the best way to improve productivity as NHS spending is cut, and this should not be a time of “gloom”, the new health secretary has told HSJ.
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NewsFormer DH adviser warns NHS funding shortfall could run to billions
A former senior policy adviser at the Department of Health has warned the NHS could face a financial shortfall of billions of pounds in as little as four years.
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PCTs told they could save £3bn over five years
Primary care trusts could save £3bn over five years through world class commissioning, the Department of Health has claimed.
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NewsSouthampton City PCT attempts to mitigate £3.6m losses
Southampton City primary care trust is renegotiating arrangements with its local Care UK treatment centre contract in a bid to stop the PCT losing up to £3.6m a year.
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Department of Health to review 2010-11 budgets
The Department of Health is to conduct a “fundamental review” of its central budgets to determine how much they will be allocated in 2010-11.
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Lansley's sums
No matter how many times shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley repeats his pledge that there will be real terms growth in NHS spending under a Tory government, the NHS is not convinced.
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NewsStart NHS pay talks now, Steve Barnett urges
NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett has urged NHS employers, politicians and unions to get around the negotiating table now to start discussions about pay after 2010-11.
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NewsTories will increase NHS budget, Andrew Lansley says
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has confirmed the Conservatives’ commitment to increasing the NHS budget in real terms after 2011 while calling on managers to justify the extra spend.
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NewsSteve Barnett says it’s 'make or break' for the NHS
The NHS is facing a “make or break” moment in its history, NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett told delegates at the conference today.
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NewsIt's official: NHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity rose by 1.2 per cent in 2007 and 0.7 per cent in 2006, official statistics show, reversing a seven year stretch of declining productivity.
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NewsNHS North West to pay Christie's Iceland bank loss
NHS North West is to compensate a specialist cancer foundation trust for the £6.5m it lost in the Icelandic banking collapse.
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MPs call for NHS consultancy costs to be made public
The daily rates of external management consultants employed by NHS organisations could soon be published, if the demands of the Commons health committee are met.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe Griffiths report: 25 years on
Twenty-five years ago Roy Griffiths famously said: ‘If Florence Nightingale were carrying her lamp through the NHS today she would be searching for the people in charge.’ When he set out his subsequent plan to overhaul management, staff feared it would be the end of the health service - Peter ...
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NewsNHS productivity unit role revealed
The NHS productivity unit will prepare the health service for the economic downturn with an initial budget of just £350,000.
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CommentSimon Stevens on toothless dental policies
Dentistry. The very word is enough to sink hearts on the fourth floor of Richmond House. The dental status quo is always said to be terrible. And every change allegedly makes it worse. That is what happened after the 1990 dental contract, and again after the 2006 contract.
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NewsDavid Nicholson warns SHAs not to be defensive over visits
Strategic health authorities have been warned not to “guard the borders” if they want to get the most out of their assurance process.