All Finance articles – Page 501
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Simon Stevens on a summer of discontent
'So as we head into TUC and party conference season, by comparison things actually look pretty tame here. Part of the problem is the way international health comparisons are used - and abused.'
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International development: 'Go and tell people what it's like here'
In the midst of grinding poverty, Malawi's tiny nursing workforce is fighting to meet the country's healthcare needs. Emma Dent reports
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ISTCs: wave three under way despite doubts
The Department of Health is pushing ahead with wave two of its independent sector treatment centre programme despite scant evidence of value, HSJ understands.
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Lansley demands health inequalities drive
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has called for fresh policies to reduce health inequalities across London.
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Deficits 'symbolic' of wider trouble
Financial failure in NHS institutions reflects a wider malaise, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Noel Plumridge on disinvestment and decluttering
What would NHS managers dump on the hospital lawn ready for the crusher or eBay?
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Diagnostics deal delayed by five months
A £257m contract with an independent company to provide 450,000 diagnostic procedures a year may not start until September, five months behind schedule.
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Turning curves
In the first part of our series on organisational turnaround, HSJ writers quiz three NHS trusts on how they fought their way back from the brink of financial Armageddon
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Councils to meet Hunt over 'cost shunting'
Council leaders in London are to meet health minister Lord Hunt after warning that £22m in 'cost shunting' will be forced on them by primary care trusts this year.
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Noel Plumridge on the cost of a day's work
'Calculate your daily rate. Say it out loud. 'I'm a £500 a day sort of guy''
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London SHA struggling to cope with junior doctor recruitment
London's strategic health authority has spent millions of pounds and employed hundreds of extra staff to handle the junior doctor recruitment process.
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DoH should contract out tariff-setting, says report
The Department of Health should look at 'contracting out' elements of the tariff-setting process, according to a hard-hitting report commissioned by ministers.
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Monitor concern over foundation progress
Less than half of acute and mental health trusts are likely to reach foundation status by 2008, regulator Monitor has said.
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Drug manufacturer to complain over 'disgraceful' NICE secrecy
The manufacturer of an Alzheimer's drug has made a formal complaint to the NHS ombudsman accusing the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of secrecy for refusing to make public the mathematical model it used in the decision to restrict use of the drug.
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Media Watch: drug company's promise
This week comes news that a drug firm has offered to refund the cost of one of its products to the NHS if it fails to work on patients.
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HSJ Knowledge
How overview and scrutiny committees can help, or hinder, NHS service redesign
Nick Edwards reports on a survey of OSC chairs about their attitudes towards NHS managers
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Noel Plumridge on questioning commissioning
As HSJreaders will be aware, the Department of Health is keen to improve standards of commissioning in the NHS.Much has been written in recent months about demand-management techniques (or rationing, as we used to call it) being the route to financial happiness. About the ...
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Health Commission Wales under threat
A major question-mark has been placed over the future of Health Commission Wales - the agency dealing with highly specialised services - after it was slammed by the Welsh Assembly's audit committee.
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Service 'collapse' warning
The clinical director of a sexual health service has warned that it is on the brink of collapse because of spending cuts.