All Finance articles – Page 476
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Funding for drug treatment in prisons gets go-ahead
The Department of Health has approved funding for enhanced clinical services for drug treatment in 38 prisons.
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Free Scottish care comes under review
The Scottish policy on free personal and nursing care is sound but needs better planning for the future to ensure its long-term sustainability, a review has found.The review sets out a 12-point action plan that includes addressing the current funding gap, standardising assessment and delivery and ensuring costs are accurately ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Sexual health - protection plea
Stuart Shepherd visits Nottingham to see how the NHS is coping with a surge in sexually transmitted infections, amid calls to keep them top priority
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Government firm on pay offer in face of threats
The government has made it clear it will not back down over NHS pay, despite threats of industrial action.
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Breaking away: Wales maps out its own future
The Welsh Assembly has plans for a third way between an internal market and a command and control system, with local health boards losing control of the commissioning purse strings. Alison Moore explains
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Comment
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on acute trust challenges
The financial year just gone has not been the easiest for acute services, with tough targets, population changes and possible structural shifts all putting pressure on trusts.
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Union rejects staged pay deal
Unite, the third largest union in the NHS, has rejected the proposed three-year NHS pay deal.It argues that the deal, which is nominally worth around 8 per cent over three years, could be worth much less if inflation rises higher than Treasury expectations.
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Scotland boosts dementia funding
A new funding package of £1.6m will go towards improving support for sufferers of dementia, anxiety and depression in Scotland.The package includes funding for practical projects offering support and advice to dementia sufferers and their families.
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Physiotherapists voice concerns over pay offer
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists is the latest trade union to express its concerns over the government's pay offer.
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Vaccine development threatened by cost-cutting
What should be a 'golden era' in the development of vaccines is being threatened by a drive to cut costs, a report by a leading academic says.
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NHS funds exclusive GP practices
HSJ has uncovered further evidence of NHS-funded GP practices in prestigious institutions which are not accessible to ordinary members of the public.
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Inappropriate A&E use could mean fines for family doctors
The Department of Health is considering proposals to charge back to GPs the treatment cost of patients who visit accident and emergency departments instead of their family doctor, HSJhas learned.The proposals could emerge as part of the Darzi review this summer.
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Fines could turn access screw - if they do not scare off GPs
The plans being discussed by junior health minister Lord Darzi to effectively fine GPs when patients inappropriately use walk-in centres, accident and emergency departments and minor injury units, illuminate some of the darker corners of primary care policy.
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Union condemns NHS pay deal 'threat'
Unite has condemned what it calls a threat by NHS chief executive David Nicholson to stage the 2008-09 NHS pay award if the unions do not back a three-year pay deal worth 7.999 per cent.In a letter, Mr Nicholson says: 'If the proposed agreement is not accepted by union members, ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Recruiting financial talent in the health sector
Recruiting and retaining the best financial minds is about more than just offering the right salary. NHS organisations need to get the word out about their unique selling points if they are to compete for the best candidates, argues Nick Hague
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BMA celebrates pensions decision
The British Medical Association has welcomed the government's decision not to appeal against the outcome of the judicial review into the calculation of GP pensions.
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DH poaches GP guarantee payments to fund pay rise
The Department of Health has begun its clawback of the controversial minimum practice income guarantee by accepting a pay recommendation for GPs that would give practices an average net increase of 0.2 per cent.The move came as other NHS staff groups were offered a three-year pay deal worth 2.75 per ...
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Comment
Noel Plumridge on boardroom drama
The setting: A hospital boardroom. A meeting of the executive team of an NHS trust is about to take place.
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£700k pay-off report kept under wraps
An auditors' report on the controversial pay-off of a trust chief executive and the employment of an interim replacement at more than twice his salary will not be made public until July.
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Unions criticise NHS pay deal
Eight unions representing health sector workers have joined forces to criticise the multi-year pay offer for NHS staff announced this week.