All Finance articles – Page 448
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Comment
Michael White on the Budget crisis
A shadow Cabinet heavyweight summed up the Budget crisis with brutal clarity: “We have been paying nurses by taxing bankers’ bonuses. It’s unsustainable,” the MP observed with some sadness.
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CommentSimon Stevens on what the Budget means for health spending
So the Budget has confirmed what we already knew: there’s a major public spending crunch ahead. Spending across government is targeted to grow at just 0.7 per cent over the period 2011-12 to 2013-14.
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NewsDIY doctors: patients can boost NHS's value
The Budget means the NHS must get better value for money. As the need for efficiency grows, the key is to get patients with chronic illnesses to manage more of their own care
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Monitor appoints new chief and chair to 'challenged' foundation trust
A foundation trust has been assigned a new chief executive by Monitor for the second time in eight months.
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NewsDavid Nicholson defends 'unashamedly elitist' Top 250 scheme
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has defended a controversial scheme to identify the top 250 jobs in the health service as “unashamedly elitist”.
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Agenda for Change is helping NHS be a 'progressive employer'
An independent study of Agenda for Change has found no evidence that the pay system discriminates against any staff group.
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NewsNHS IT programme given seven months to improve
The Department of Health has given the NHS IT programme seven months to make “significant progress” in installing working IT systems in hospitals.
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HSJ KnowledgeBook Review: Overtreated - Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
This rebuts the idea that healthcare costs have to rise, says Stephen Black
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NHS performance regime: failure criteria published
The Department of Health has published the criteria it will use for defining failure under its performance regime.
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NHS bodies forced to reveal gender pay gap
NHS organisations will be forced to reveal the salaries paid to male and female staff under legislation published today.
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NewsPublic spending cuts will be worse than predicted - Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public spending will be cut by 2.3 per cent a year in real terms from 2011-12 onwards, analysts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said.
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LeaderFoundation trusts running out of time to meet Monitor standards
The challenges are piling up for trusts yet to clear the hurdle of achieving foundation status
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NewsNHS maternity spending falls in first year of DH strategy for improving services
The Department of Health has evidence that is believed to show that, in real terms, spending on maternity dropped in the first year of the government’s strategy for improving services.
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NewsGP pay changes: worst hit PCTs revealed
The Department of Health has published a list of the primary care trusts which will be most disadvantaged as a result of changes to the way GP pay is allocated.
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CommentMichael White on the Budget
Not a good Easter break for the extended White family. Between us we suffered a car crash, an emergency caesarian and a burglary.
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BT downplays NHS IT speculation
Contract renegotiations between the main suppliers for the national programme for IT have been “successfully concluded”, according to the Department of Health.
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CommentYour Humble Servant rides with the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
‘System alignment is everyone agreeing with the DH that these are four bloody good principles’
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Leader
Budget confirms that clinicians must accept responsibility for managing money
The arid financial landscape for the health service confirmed in yesterday’s Budget means the days of clinicians avoiding responsibility for managing money are over.
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Budget 2009: NHS privatisation should be victim of savings, says union
The largest trade union in the country has said government efficiency savings should be targeted at the “costly, creeping privatisation” of the NHS.
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Budget 2009: Improve NHS productivity or cut services - King's Fund
The NHS will face “significant cuts in its services” from 2011 unless it can become more productive, the King’s Fund said in response to today’s Budget.