All Finance articles – Page 472
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News
Simon Stevens on improving payment by results
In my last column, I discussed evidence on how payment by results is actually working.
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News
PCTs face tough questions on QOF reporting
Data published for the first time today by HSJ reveals the GPs who exclude the most patients from their quality incentive scheme.
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News
Patient access put at heart of quality framework
Changes to the GP quality and outcomes framework unveiled this week by NHS Employers reflect the government's intention to improve patient access to general practice.
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News
ISTC payment framework announced
The Department of Health has set out the costs it is prepared to cover as a result of last year's rescoping of the phase two independent sector treatment centre programme.
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Call to target NHS money at young people
A leading Church of Scotland minister believes the NHS should stop using its money to keep the elderly alive and spend it on the young instead.
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NHS dentistry spending rises by 50 per cent
NHS expenditure on dental services increased by 53 per cent between 1997-98 and 2005-06, figures published today by the Information Centre for health and social care show.The strategic health authority showing the greatest percentage increase in expenditure over this period was South Yorkshire at 69 per cent. The lowest rise ...
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Former NHS executive jailed
A former NHS executive has been jailed for 12 months for forging land profits in an attempt to wipe out his trust's financial deficit.
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Leader
Practices' minimum income is a guarantee of health inequity
Figures obtained byHSJ this week reveal huge variations in the amount GP practices are paid for doing their job, regardless of how many patients they serve or the severity of their needs.
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Corporate manslaughter: you could be in the dock
From 6 April NHS organisations could be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter if someone dies in their care, but different interpretations of the law mean trusts may be unclear about their responsibilities. Ingrid Torjesen attempts to unravel the new actFor more in-depth information about the act, register for HSJ’s free corporate ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Specialised commissioning: who will stand up for rare conditions?
As PCTs respond to popular local demand, the government must ensure illnesses that affect relatively few people are cared for too
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News
Huge variation in GP practice pay regardless of size of list
Figures obtained by HSJ reveal the extent to which the national GP contract has driven inequity across the country, with huge variations in payments to practices, regardless of the number and need of their patients.
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Supplements
Round table - clinical priorities: a dose of realism
Wonder drugs will play a part in transforming healthcare - but a roundtable of experts brought together by HSJ and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said implementing best practice could be even more important. Alexis Nolan reports
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Comment
Let's cut NHS waste
As a clinician with an interest in management, the waste in the NHS astounds me. There are huge variations in drugs that do practically the same thing, such as statins, and numerous different types of joint replacement and procedural systems that work efficiently in one hospital but are unworkable in ...
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News
NHS London focuses on Brent financial crisis
A report into the financial crisis at Brent primary care trust has highlighted 'grave failings' in leadership.
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News
London's neediest areas are worst off
London primary care trusts facing the biggest health challenges are saddled with the greatest funding shortfalls, a new coalition of private and voluntary organisations has warned.
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Foundation trusts query accounting changes
Foundation trusts have raised concerns that forthcoming changes to accounting rules could undermine efforts to get hospitals to focus on where they make and lose money.
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Auditors concerned over Hinchingbrooke's £38.7m deficit
Auditors for Hinchingbrooke Health Care trust have raised 'serious concerns' over its projected £38.7m deficit for 2007-08, as the trust's savings plans are not sufficient to cover it.
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News
Ill health costs £100bn
People should be kept healthy at work and be helped to return to work if they get ill, according to a review of work-related health services.The review, led by national director for health and work Dame Carol Black, found that ill health costs £100bn a year and that the human ...
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS continuing care: a new batch of claims?
Compensation claims from patients who were denied continuing healthcare on the NHS are beginning to hit finance directors' desks. David Lock explains how to respond to them
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Comment
Guarantees are vital to ISTC success
Your piece on independent sector treatment centres, 'ISTC contract guarantees will saddle NHS with £187m bill', misses some fundamental points, writes David Worskett