All Finance articles – Page 515
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on teaching hospitals
'It is likely that the teaching hospital group will segment into different roles'
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Your Humble Servant: the new SHA
To: Don Wise, chief executiveFrom: Paul Servant, assistant chief executiveRe: Strategic hip authority
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Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape
'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'
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Turnaround strategies and the law
Many NHS bodies are developing turnaround plans to achieve financial recovery. The implementation of these raises complex legal issues, particularly on patient and public involvement and employment law. Graeme Trigg reports
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Trust scores legal victory
A hospital trust has won its battle to reconfigure its service - after a judicial review upheld the legality of its decision.
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Two-year turnaround visits likely
Some turnaround teams sent in to trusts could be there for up to two years, the head of the NHS has admitted to MPs.
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Michael White: maternity woes
'For some, fertility issues are heart-breaking - not marginal NHS issues but utterly central to their lives'
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Media watch
'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'
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Media Watch
What Gordon Brown's premiership will mean for the health service has yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: the NHS is bound for more tumultuous times.
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Media watch
The Timesreported that the proposed deal has 'astonished critics of Novation in the US'
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Michael White on politics
'I do not think the Walsall trio, all nice chaps, will mind if I describe them as the Old Codgers, rather than the Three Musketeers'
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Michael White on politics
'Does the first glimpse of the new, kinder Tory health policy amount to much? Blair didn't think so'