All Finance articles – Page 477
-
News
Lib Dem leader outlines plans for the health service
The new leader of the Liberal Democrats has outlined his party's proposals for all patients to be given a set of 'entitlements' to treatment, based on their condition.
-
News
Questions over infection control funds
The NHS Confederation has questioned Department of Health claims that its infection control strategy is being supported by £270m of new money.
-
News
NICE could rate all drugs for extra £1m a year
Proposals to extend the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence would cost just £1m extra a year, or 3.5 per cent of its budget, its chief executive Andrew Dillon has estimated.
-
HSJ Knowledge
Salaried primary care dentists accept new contract
The British Dental Association has confirmed that salaried primary care dentists in England have voted to accept proposals to modernise their contract, negotiated by NHS Employers and the BDA.
-
News
Money worries worsen mental health problems, poll shows
Nearly one in five people are less able to manage their mental health because of money worries after Christmas, a survey has found.
-
News
Audit Commission finds payment coding errors
Inaccurate payment by results coding by hospitals has led to primary care trusts being overcharged by as much as 6 per cent, the Audit Commission has found.
-
News
Private treatment centre to go ahead despite local critics
NHS South Central has said it will press ahead with controversial plans for a new independent sector treatment centre despite local concerns that added capacity is not needed.
-
News
Cost-benefit thresholds are outdated, says MPs' report
The health select committee has recommended sweeping changes to the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence assesses what drugs and treatments should be available on the NHS.
-
News
Trusts urged to recruit anti-infection staff
Hospitals have been pressed to employ up to five extra specialist staff as part of a government strategy to improve infection control.The government has set aside up to £45m to be invested in the scheme, out of a £270m fund identified in the comprehensive spending review for reducing healthcare-acquired infections.
-
News
government's infection control strategy
Hospitals have been told to recruit up to five extra specialist staff as part of a government strategy to improve infection control. The government wants up to£45million to be invested on the scheme, out of a£270million fund identified in the comprehensive spending review for reducing healthcare-acquired infections. But trusts are ...
-
News
NICE must reform say MPs
The health select committee has recommended sweeping changes to the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence assesses what drugs and treatments should be available on the NHS.In their report published today the committee says that NICE’s cost threshold of£30,000 per quality life year gained, which it uses ...
-
News
Report calls for long-term care reform
Payment for long-term care for older people should be universal but shared between the state and individual, according to a report by 15 organisations.
-
News
Worcestershire hospital cancels operations
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust has stopped carrying out all routine elective surgery until next wednesday due to "unrelenting" pressure on resources.Chief executive John Rostill said the problem was not just the high number of patients but the fact they were very ill. Forty-five patients have had their operations cancelled.Ten patients ...
-
News
EU plans for health tourism
Primary care trusts may be able to save money on non-urgent procedures by encouraging patients to go abroad, under EU plans to create a Europe-wide free market in health services.
-
News
DoH faces long bureaucracy battle
The Department of Health has a long way to go to meet its commitment to cut the administrative burden on regulation of NHS services by 2010, the NHS Confederation has warned.
-
News
Fears DoH could claw back foundation trust surpluses
A dispute between University College London Hospitals foundation trust and the Department of Health has fuelled fears that the government will claw back surpluses from foundation trusts.
-
News
Hunt on for missing £870m as DoH accused of hoarding cash
The Department of Health is keeping back up to £870m in NHS funding, HSJ has been told - and is suspected of hoarding the cash to pay for extra initiatives next year.
-
Comment
The curious incident of the missing £870m
The fine print of the coming year's funding settlement indicates that, in contrast to NHS chief executive David Nicholson's protestations, the Department of Health will indeed have a significant sum - up to £870m - locked away in its Richmond House safe next year (for more background, click here).
-
HSJ Knowledge
HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash
A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize
-
News
DoH reneged on surplus promise, claims BMA
The British Medical Association has accused the government of reneging on a promise to use the predicted £1.8bn NHS surplus on healthcare.