All Finance articles – Page 459
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Cash for healthy lifestyles
Economic incentives such as paying people not to smoke should be incorporated into public health strategy, a government policy group has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat makes hospital ward staffing costs vary?
With ward staffing costs consuming over a third of the annual pay bill, trusts know how important it is to make the most of nursing resources.
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NewsNext stage review: SHAs steer Darzi plans through financial storm
The recession and the subsequent question marks over funding mean SHAs’ visions published last year are being recast. But, as Alison Moore finds out, many have made strong progress regardless
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NHS financial forecast worsens
The NHS has been issued with stark new estimates of the impact the recession will have on its finances.
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Comment
Daphne Austin on NHS exceptional funding decisions
One aspect of priority setting that presents difficulties is funding requests for individual patients, particularly those based on alleged “exceptionality”.
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Leading NHS chiefs call for London trust mergers
Competition and collaboration rules should not stand in the way of hospital trust mergers and acquisitions, two major acute trust chief executives have argued.
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Deadline falls on drawn out tariff wrangling
Commissioners and providers were still wrangling over the controversial HRG4 tariff just days before the 13 March deadline to complete negotiations expired.
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Community
Media Watch: NHS recession depression
Some stories get written because they are about a money, others because they involve gore or sex. Then there are the stories that simply give journalists the opportunity to use phrases that offend, alliterate or rhyme.
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Health loses out under Treasury PFI package
Last week the Treasury announced plans to boost recession hit PFI schemes with public cash, which could leave the NHS billions of pounds out of pocket. Sally Gainsbury explains the impact on health projects
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PwC contests Treasury budget crunch figures
Real terms NHS funding growth would be squeezed to 0.5 - 1 per cent a year from 2011 under the best case scenario for recovering from the recession outlined by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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SHA chief Margaret Edwards to lead productivity unit
Margaret Edwards, the chief executive of Yorkshire and the Humber strategic health authority, has left to head up a new national NHS productivity unit.She has agreed to lead the unit, set up by NHS chief executive David Nicholson and based in NHS London, and will start as national director of ...
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Chris Ham slams anti-competition guidance
Agreements between hospitals over the provision of specialist services could be seen as a criminal breach of competition rules.
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Treasury PFI scheme could be funded by NHS underspends
NHS capital underspends could be clawed back by the Treasury to fund its plans to lend money to stalled private finance initiative schemes, HSJ has been told.
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Wales announces hospital improvements
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has announced capital funding for a list of new hospital equipment and building improvements.
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HSJ Knowledge
Personal health budgets: the patient is always right
Will individual health budgets help patients get the best care or leave the NHS struggling with increased costs and new ethical dilemmas? Kaye McIntosh reports
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Research points to benefits of individual social care budgets
Independent research has concluded that individual social care budgets can 'greatly' improve the quality of life for carers, the government has said.
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Hospital entertainment provider backtracks on price hike
Northumbria Healthcare foundation trust has forced bedside entertainment provider Hospedia to backtrack on a 140 per cent price hike.
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DH backtracks on failure regime figures
The Department of Health has backtracked on its estimate that up to six trusts a year would fall into its failure regime and be taken over.
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London GPs miss out on cash
The British Medical Association's GPs committee has attacked NHS London for failing to ensure primary care trusts honour an agreement to pass on cash to practices.
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PCT surplus figures were off by a fifth
Accounting errors led to primary care trusts under-reporting their surpluses by 20 per cent last financial year, the Audit Commission has said.