All Finance articles – Page 505
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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Mental health is subsidising other trusts
Mental health trusts are being forced to subsidise other parts of the health economy, a report has warned.
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GP rewards for innovation
Primary care trusts should 'invest to save' by handing out more cash incentives to GP practices to help with achieving system reform priorities, the government has said.
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Lord Warner to limit GP pensions
The government has moved to limit increases in GP pensions, claiming patient services could be at risk if it did not act.
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HSJ Knowledge
Special report: PCT futures
In December, HSJran the PCT Futures conference in London, bringing together a wide range of speakers from government, primary care and the independent sector. In this special report we examine some of the main themes to emerge, from the complex arguments around splitting commissioning ...
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Noel Plumridge on the future of PbR
The original idea behind payment by results was disarmingly simple: more work, more money. But the dilemma was always how to pay for it in a closed, cash-limited system. So what can we anticipate from the consultation paper on the future of payment by results due by the end of ...
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Media Watch: working for free
One test of a story's likely impact on the public is the range of newspapers that run it. On that basis, the story at the weekend that nurses, doctors and other staff at a Kent acute trust have been asked to do a day's work for no pay pretty much ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Preparing for healthcare resource group four
Healthcare resource groups are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments which use comparable levels of healthcare resource.
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Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
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Penalty fines total millions on IT
Trusts are being fined millions of pounds for failing to lend staff to computer contractors running the troubled national IT programme.
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Inside track: finance - what's on managers' minds this week
'What we don't need is more negative images perpetuated by those at the centre'
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Noel Plumridge on finance
'I couldn't resist it: 'Have you thought of taking up golf?' I quipped'
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No fence for LINks
Funding for local involvement networks will not be ringfenced, the government has announced. In its response to consultation to its July proposal to establish the networks, the Department of Health said that funding to local authorities would be 'allocated as a targeted but not ringfenced grant'.
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MPs slam health ministers' financial failures
Ministers' failure to get a grip on NHS finances last year led to a £570m net deficit in England, according to MPs.
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Minister unveils social enterprise start-up fund
A £73m social enterprise fund will be given to start-up social enterprises in health and social care, according to health minister Ivan Lewis.
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LIFT eight times more expensive, MPs told
Primary care trusts are paying up to eight times as much per patient for GP surgeries built by local improvement finance trusts, a report from the Commons public accounts committee has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Turnaround tales from the edge
The second in our three-part series on turnaround success stories shows how three more trusts took radical action to stop the rot
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Non-execs step down from troubled trust
Three non-executive directors have stepped down at a trust beset with financial problems and controversy over possible service changes.
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Moving down the line to financial stability
The recent merger of two acute trusts hints at things to come as struggling organisations are forced to re-examine their options. Chris Ham surveys the new structural landscape of the health service