All Finance articles – Page 5
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NewsStreeting intervenes over energy price shock
The health secretary has urged hospital chief executives to sign up to a national energy procurement scheme to cushion themselves from energy price shocks caused by the war in Iran.
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CommentWhy prevention keeps losing out
NHS leaders believe in prevention, but system design drives focus on waiting lists and activity, not long-term health outcomes
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CommentWhat trust leaders need to understand about the FDP
What does the federated data platform actually deliver, where does it fall short and how can leaders turn it into an operational advantage? These are the questions that the NHS need to be asking
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NewsFrench tech giant seeks to crack GP IT duopoly
An insurgent NHS tech supplier is planning a major expansion after being bought out by a European company.
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HSJ LocalEx-civil servant made trust CEO
Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Nicola Ayton as its new permanent chief executive, the provider has announced.
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NewsLeaked review warns CDCs a ‘burden’ on trusts
Community diagnostic centres could become a financial “burden” on providers without extra funding and changes to how tests are paid for, the programme’s architect has warned in an internal review obtained by HSJ.
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CommentThe variable quality of senior doctors is harming patients and the NHS
Inconsistent consultant standards in the NHS risk inefficiency, higher costs, delayed discharges, and reduced patient flow – clearer national criteria is needed
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: DoFs are in the dark about deficit support
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By senior correspondents Henry Anderson and Zoe Tidman.
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CommentMental health reform is becoming urgent
Demand for mental health support is rising, particularly among young people. The next phase of NHS reform must prioritise prevention, early intervention and services that are accessible when people need them
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NewsDHSC paying £1.8m for advice on ‘culture and pay’
The Department of Health and Social Care is paying a management consultancy £1.8m to help it “create and drive the right target culture” – and to advise on “pay strategy” – as it absorbs NHS England.
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CommentGovernment must back ICBs or its reforms will fail
ICBs are ready to prove themselves as strategic commissioners. Now the government needs to hold up its end of the bargain
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HSJ PartnersWorking together to change children’s futures
For too many children in the UK, their health in childhood and long into adulthood is affected by inequality.
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CommentWhy 30 years of commissioning reforms have failed
NHS commissioning reforms repeatedly fail due to structural, financial and political barriers, raising doubts over whether latest changes can succeed
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NewsDHSC hires firm to help with wave of private finance deals
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned a “technical adviser” to develop the public-private partnership model for neighbourhood health centres.
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NewsTrust wasted £15m restoring unusable incinerator
“Systemic governance failures” lay behind a hospital trust wasting £15m restoring an incinerator which rapidly went out of use, a review has found.
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NewsUpdated: Trust to re-let £10m contract after ‘highly material errors’
A trust plans to restart a £10m contract award to run two urgent care centres after making a string of “highly material” errors in the procurement process.
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CommentPatient power payments risk driving defensive medicine in the NHS
Giving patients greater influence over provider payment could improve accountability, but clinicians warn it may encourage defensive practice and place further strain on NHS services
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HSJ PartnersA minimally invasive standard of care: from ambition to reality
The next step for robotic-assisted surgery
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NewsTrust settles ‘lucrative deal’ legal challenge
A south London acute trust has ended a year-long legal challenge brought by a radiology supplier after agreeing to a confidential settlement.
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NewsSpiralling cost of mental health patients stuck in acute hospitals revealed
Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds a year on expensive temporary staff to look after mental health patients stranded in emergency departments and acute wards, HSJ has learnt.