All Finance articles – Page 465
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News
Low hopes for dementia strategy as cash dries up
Mental health experts who advised the government on the delayed dementia strategy are 'braced for disappointment' amid fears it is being substantially watered down due to the worsening economy.
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Comment
Simon Stevens on an NHS game plan for 2009
Happy New Year. Or is it? With so much talk of recession and economic gloom, it's easy to forget the NHS's benign position, compared with - say - the car industry, retail, or financial services.
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News
NHS archive documents: secret papers show history repeating itself
A recession, rising unemployment, escalating demand for health services and the tricky issue of how to improve the NHS with little or no new cash.
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Foundations face threat to joint ventures
Foundation trusts face narrowed commercial opportunities because of a gap in the government's insolvency regime, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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Unemployment will put pressure on health services, RCN warns
The Royal College of Nursing has called on the government to work to prevent health services being 'swamped' because of rising unemployment.
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News
More Department of Health staff earning top salaries
The number of Department of Health staff earning more than £100,000 a year has risen from eight to 50 since 1997.Annual figures show the number earning more than £100,000 peaked in 2005 at 71. During 2007 and 2008 the figure was 50.
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News
End of life drugs move raises budget concerns
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to proceed with controversial plans to broaden access to drugs for the terminally ill in the face of serious concerns from health managers.
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NHS buildings face £4.04bn maintenance backlog
NHS buildings have a £4.04bn maintenance backlog, according to figures released by ministers.
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Merger on the cards for troubled foundation trust
The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust has decided it may need to merge with another organisation to be financially stable.
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News
DH admits defeat over end of life tariff
The Department of Health has admitted defeat over plans to create a tariff for end of life services provided by the voluntary sector.
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News
NHS surplus will bolster restricted spending
The NHS finished last financial year with a surplus equivalent to £2.2bn, spending watchdogs have said.
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News
Monitor tightens private patient income cap but calls for law change
Regulator Monitor is to tighten the rules on the private patient income cap after the Department of Health and auditors criticised a 'loophole' in the regime.
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News
Independent sector treatment centres could keep subsidies
The Department of Health has indicated it may revisit its pledge that independent sector treatment centres will not receive subsidies over the NHS tariff when their current contracts run out.
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ reader survey: 2008 in review
We surveyed readers on their feelings about the last 12 months. This is what you told us
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News
How will you lead the NHS spending revolution?
Last week's operating framework presented managers with a 'huge leadership challenge' - juggling savings with productivity. But what problems might spending cuts put in their way, asks Sally Gainsbury
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News
Unison 'disappointed' over NHS pay deal
Unison has said it is disappointed by the NHS pay review body's decision not to ask the government to re-open the three-year pay deal.
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News
Patricia Hewitt warns of 'difficult decisions' for PCTs
The NHS faces 'difficult decisions' in coming years as it adjusts to smaller - and possibly negative - funding growth, former health secretary Patricia Hewitt has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trust failure: who's for the chop?
As the original deadline passes, 80-odd trusts are lagging in the race to achieve foundation status. Sally Gainsbury ponders the fate of those that fail to hit the mark
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Leader
NHS surplus robbery risks a return to financial instability
This week the NHS was told part of the price it will have to pay for the collapse of the economy, as it bid a fond farewell to £1bn of its £1.8bn surplus.
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News
NHS told to cap spending as more than half of £1.8bn surplus is lost
The dire state of public finances means the NHS will be permitted to spend less than half the surplus it has generated over the last two years.