All Finance articles – Page 447
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NewsAndy Burnham promises to protect primary care budgets
Health secretary Andy Burnham has promised to do “everything he can” to protect primary care budgets from public sector spending cuts.
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NewsMike O'Brien tells SHAs to 'justify their existence'
Health minister Mike O’Brien has called on strategic health authorities to “justify their existence”, saying more of their budgets should be devolved to commissioners.
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NewsLib Dems reveal £110m NHS parking charges
Car parking charges at NHS hospitals totalled £110 million last year, according to the Liberal Democrats.
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NewsAndy Burnham makes no promises over NHS cuts
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said his focus is on protecting the frontline, but could not promise health services would be ringfenced from expected spending cuts.
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NewsGordon Brown to unveil seven day cancer test pledge
Patients will undergo diagnostic tests for cancer within seven days of concerns being raised, prime minister Gordon Brown is to pledge.
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Budget shortfall prompts NHS staffing freeze
A £30m budget gap may force one of the biggest NHS trusts in Wales to cut back on beds and reduce the number of agency staff drafted in to fill full-time vacancies.
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NewsNHS hospital equipment 'under-used' - Taxpayers' Alliance
Hospitals are failing to make use of sophisticated and expensive treatment technology, the Taxpayers’ Alliance has claimed.
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NewsPublic spending cuts 'not black and white' - Alistair Darling
Frontline services can be protected despite the need to make “difficult choices” on public spending cuts, the Chancellor has said.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CommentNoel Plumridge on no-frills healthcare
Who actually likes Ryanair? For the benefit of sustainably minded readers who would not dream of blowing their hard earned moolah on a cheap weekend in Bratislava, the Ryanair pricing model starts with an unfeasibly small headline fare, supplemented by an increasingly imaginative list of charges.
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NewsNurses urged to show savings
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is to calculate and publish “opportunity savings” in 10 changes to the way nurses work.
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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.