All Finance articles – Page 66
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CommentTransformation is needed in NHS governance and regulation
Transforming the culture and architecture of the NHS must be on the government’s agenda for improving patient care and working lives of NHS leaders. By Danny Mortimer.
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NewsMental health patients excluded from ‘narrow’ winter funding
Mental health patients have been excluded from the government’s “narrowly focussed” funding to support hospital discharges over 2020-21.
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NewsExtra funding confirmed for learning disability nurse apprenticeships
Health Education England is set to give employers additional funding for learning disability nursing funding in a bid to increase the sector’s dwindling workforce numbers.
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NewsCounty hopes for £400m in spending review for massive service change
Leaders in the south east are hopeful they will secure funding for a delayed £400m acute reconfiguration from the comprehensive spending review this autumn.
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Revealed: New cash penalties and incentives for waiting list challenge
New financial penalties and incentives for elective activity will be decided solely by system-level performance, prompting concerns from local leaders.
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NewsRegion puts £80m of waiting list catch-up out to tender
Managers in London anticipate spending £80m with private hospitals over the next four months to catch up with the region’s waiting list backlog, HSJ can reveal.
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Comment‘Give the NHS what it needs, or tell public that cuts are on the way’
On capital funding the government needs to give the NHS an appropriate capital settlement to meet its manifesto commitments, recover care backlogs and reform social care, writes Chris Hopson.
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NewsNHS braces for £10bn spend on outsourcing work to private hospitals
The NHS could spend £10bn outsourcing work to private hospital groups over the next four years, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Social care ‘Nightingales’ - or not?
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by integration senior correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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HSJ LocalGetting shielded staff back before winter key priority, says hospital CEO
A teaching hospital which had over a thousand staff shielding or working from home at the peak of the covid outbreak has made getting these employees safely back on site a top priority before winter, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsTrust chief: NHS should cut spend on suppliers where bosses lack diversity
Firms should not be able to “readily” access public money if they cannot demonstrate diversity among their senior leadership, an NHS trust chief advising NHS England has told HSJ.
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Revealed: the trusts getting a share of the £300m winter pressures fund
Over one hundred trusts will share a £300m capital fund to support coronavirus-related upgrades to emergency departments ahead of winter, the prime minister has announced today.
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NewsNHS and private sector on collision course over plans to reduce hospital waiting list
The NHS and private hospitals are on a collision course over a new multibillion-pound deal for how the service will access the independent sector’s capacity.
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NewsExclusive: No refunds over Ayanda Capital mask deal
The government will not receive reimbursement for 50 million masks which may never be used in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsExclusive: U-turn on mass expansion of covid care units as no funding available
Plans for a mass expansion of rehabilitation beds in new “Seacole centres” have been scrapped, with local leaders now told there is no capital funding to build them.
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NewsNHS told to return to “near-normal” performance before winter
Trusts have been set a series of “very stretching” targets to recover non-covid services to nearly normal levels in the next few months, in new guidance from NHS England.
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HSJ LocalTrust agrees sick pay uplift after pressure from unions
A London trust has resisted calls to insource its soft facilities management contract, but agreed to improved terms and conditions for staff providing the outsourced services.
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NewsHMRC strengthens grip on NHS tax bills after trust’s legal challenge fails
The NHS could face stronger enforcement over wrongly VAT claims after a foundation trust lost an unusual legal battle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
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NewsHancock: ‘busting bureaucracy’ will help NHS staff
Matt Hancock has launched a “bureaucracy busting call for evidence” from healthcare staff, alongside publication of part of the long-awaited NHS People Plan.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Pivotal moment for the tariff
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, this week by correspondent Tom Norton.