All Finance articles – Page 484
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Leicester chief resigns after failed PFI project
The chief executive of one of the country's biggest trusts has stepped down from his job amid claims that he was made a scapegoat for an abandoned private finance initiative deal.
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Government admits £1.7bn GP overspend
The government spent £1.7bn more than planned on general practice between 2003-04 and 2005-06, the latest figures reveal.
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Study compares trusts' financial performance
Researchers at York University have found that significant differences in the performance of foundation and non-foundation trusts are long-standing and not the result of this policy change.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health hotel: exploring inequalities
At the 'Access to all areas' event speakers will address the uneven picture of public health, and ask why - despite some progress - gaps are still widening. Helen Mooney reports
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Rare diseases: adopt orphans
A lack of knowledge and understanding is resulting in inequalities surrounding the prescription of drugs for rare diseases, reports Michael Sobanja
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Mastering strategic asset management
NHS organisations must keep tabs on their estate by compiling comprehensive information on their properties, writes Mark Paget Skelin
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Renewed efforts to set up national tariff
Mental health trusts are signing up to new payment by results pilots, although fears remain that a national system will not be implemented.
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PFI link-ups could save millions
Hospital trusts considering using the private finance initiative could save millions of pounds by teaming up with non-NHS partners, according to the chief executive of a trust set to go into partnership with a football club.West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust stands to save£80m-£100m because it is building a new hospital in ...
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Union 'gobsmacked' by ambulance funds blow
North West Ambulance Service trust has admitted it can only afford to buy 35 of the 128 ambulances it needs to replace, raising questions over the reconfigured service's buying power.Board papers from the service, which was formed in July 2006 following the merger of four trusts, say it needs to ...
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The NICE threshold
How costly or cheap, relative to its benefits, does a healthcare technology have to be to justify its rejection or acceptance by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence?
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Michael White on panic politics
'I imagined patients queuing outside their local hospital, just like Northern Rock'
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BMA U-turn on GP pay plan
The British Medical Association has distanced itself from proposed changes to GPs' pay that it jointly produced. It has argued that too many GPs will lose out under the proposals.
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The NHS wasted its big chance - will it learn from its mistakes?
Sir Derek Wanless has declared the NHS has made lacklustre progress since its 2002 cash injection. Nigel Edwards looks at his findings in detail and considers the key lessons
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Michael White on politics
The old saying that 'it never rains but it pours' seems unusually apt this soggy summer. But this week the saying also applied to Britain's elderly people when the High Court ruling on Aricept, the Alzheimer's drug, was accompanied by a torrent of reports highlighting deficient aspects of their treatment.One ...
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Where NHS finance goes wrong
A new report has called for more "honesty" in financial forecasting in the NHS.Health trust chief executives and finance directors are frightened of publishing bad financial forecasts for fear of losing their jobs, claims the report by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)."Understandably, they may delay bad news for ...
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High Court drugs ruling marks latest skirmish in war of words
The High Court ruling upholding the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's decision over medication for Alzheimer's is just the latest skirmish in what promises to be protracted manoeuvring over drug use and pricing.
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DoH to push choice policy using payment by results
The government has announced it will begin using payment by results to drive choice.
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EU cancer case
The European Commission has been asked to investigate whether a primary care trust can refuse to pay for drugs that are being funding elsewhere.In a case which, if it succeeds, would set a precedent for local PCT decisions on prescribing, Tory MEP Chris Heaton-Harris is calling on the European Commission ...
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Home births to be included in payment by results tariff
Home births will be included in the payment by results tariff next year to support choice for women the chief executive of NHS has announced.
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Herts bags early winner with stadium bid
As the football season cranks into action, Watford have scored an early goal in a PFI partnership with West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust.The trust hopes to share£80m-£100m of its costs by building a new hospital in Watford as part of a development encompassing a new stadium, housing, a hotel and conference ...