All Finance articles – Page 466
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News
Latest data on consultant and nurse pay
The NHS Information Centre has published estimates of annual basic pay and total earnings for NHS staff based on payments between January and March 2008.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS must keep an eye on the private sector
The greatest benefit the private sector can bring to the nation is not to control the tax burden but to make NHS users demand better services
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News
Private care poses little threat to the NHS, finds IPPR report
The private healthcare industry poses little threat to the NHS, but the government should act to safeguard consumers and calm residual fears, a think tank has concluded.
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Scottish government to fund extended GP hours
The Scottish government has earmarked up to £2.65m to help GP practices extend their opening hours by employing more nurses.
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News
More information needed on construction projects - Audit Scotland
The Scottish government and Parliament should be given better information before key decisions are made about public construction projects such as hospitals, according to a report by Audit Scotland.
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News
Provider arms should scrutinise unprofitable services
Primary care trust provider arms must be prepared to question the future of unprofitable services in order to succeed as standalone organisations, the NHS Confederation conference has heard.
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Comment
Michael White on specialist trauma response
The other day health minister Ben Bradshaw read out to concerned MPs a list of all the places on the body where young people get pierced these days.
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News
Foundation says it will use surplus to loosen PFI ties
The chief executive of the foundation trust with the biggest cash surplus has said his organisation will use its £120m to minimise its dependence on the private finance initiative.
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Comment
Updating top-up rules need not be a dagger to the heart of NHS
Just days before its 60th birthday the NHS is being forced to re-evaluate its founding principle - that treatment is based on clinical need not the ability to pay.
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News
Top-up review set to question core NHS principles
The 'founding principles of the NHS' are to be revisited after the government launched a review of the ban preventing patients making 'top-up' payments for drugs.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on community tariff appeal
'The biggest black box in the NHS' was how my fellow columnist Simon Stevens last month described the £10bn or more spent by English PCTs on district nursing, therapies and other mainstream community healthcare.
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News
Review of top-up policy announced
The government is to review its policy on patients who want to top up NHS care with private treatment, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
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DH evades Treasury cap on central budgets
The Department of Health will use part of its own internal underspend to release itself from Treasury-imposed cut backs in administrative spending. As part of the comprehensive spending review the Treasury imposed a two per cent (£5m) reduction each year to the DH’s central budget of£225m. But in its business ...
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News
Trust financial forecasts prove wide of mark
Scores of NHS organisations reported end-of-year financial surpluses that were at least 25 per cent wide of their initial forecasts.
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Labour's NHS vision let down by reforms
New Labour's reforms have failed to deliver its vision to transform the health service, a major report has concluded.The joint Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission report finds the overhaul of the health service under the 2000 NHS Plan has, in many areas, fallen well short of expectations.
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Comment
Michael White on dealing with the Treasury
Right, enough of this gloom. All together now, we are going to say 'let's stay cheerful for the rest of this column, whatever happens'.
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News
GP incentives are not needed, 'inverse care' doctor tells MPs
The GP who developed the 'inverse care law' - which says those most in need of healthcare are least likely to receive it - has told MPs he objects to giving family doctors financial incentives to do their job.
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Nick Clegg pledges GP rewards in poorer areas
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said he wants to 'slant the playing field in favour of GPs working in the most deprived areas'.
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News
Adult care threat
Congratulations on your leader responding to Sally Gainsbury's report on councils' potential loss of £7bn social care funds to the Department for Work and Pensions.
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News
DH warns Treasury of chaos after accountancy rule changes
Department of Health officials warned the Treasury that accountancy rule changes affecting the private finance initiative would ‘throw the NHS system into chaos’.