All George Osborne articles – Page 6
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NewsUpdated: DH forecasts tightest financial year end since 2006
The Treasury has revealed that the Department of Health is forecasting a zero underspend on its revenue budget for 2013-14, in what one expert said was a sign of how “finances are deteriorating very quickly across the NHS”.
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NewsBudget 2014: Pensions change to cost NHS £125m
Plans announced in today’s Budget to increase employer contributions to the NHS Pension Scheme are expected to increase costs by around £125m a year, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsChancellor signals further pay restraint
The chancellor used his autumn budget statement to warn of public sector pay restraint beyond 2015.
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NewsTreasury signs off £260m technology fund
The Treasury has signed off NHS England’s £260m technology fund, the body’s technology chief has announced.
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CommentMichael White: The coalition’s real U-turn
David Cameron is instinctively a pragmatic liberal Tory
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CommentMichael White: social care reform is a slow crawl
The government’s plans have finally reached another milestone
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CommentThe government double counts its chickens
There are two ways to see the coalition’s social care plan
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CommentMichael White: an end to health tourism?
The government is making hay from plans to charge foreign NHS visitors
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NewsOsborne announces tighter controls on pay progression
Pay progression for most health employees will from 2015-16 be tied “more closely” to their achievement of local performance standards, George Osborne announced today.
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NewsHunt dubs £3bn transfer to social care “huge moment in NHS history”
Health funding transfer to social care to treble in 2015-16
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Exclusive: Surge in hospitals predicting deficits as total exceeds £200m
NHS trusts are predicting a deficit of more than £200m in this financial year, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentMichael White: we're entitled to be sceptical of Labour's plans
A different version of austerity and the NHS after 2015
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NewsTwo bidders drop out of pension fund hospital build scheme
Two out of three bidders involved in an innovative scheme to use pension fund capital to finance a major hospital development have dropped out, HSJ has learned.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: the disappearing surplus
Other government departments are eyeing the NHS’s “ringfence”
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News
Full coverage: DH underspending
Full analysis and opinion following HSJ revealing the DH is this year on course for its biggest annual underspend in the current parliament
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NewsHow HSJ has covered the DH's history of underspending
The 2013 Budget showed the Department of Health is on course for its biggest annual underspend this parliament. In October last year HSJ exclusively revealed the DH had returned almost £3bn to the Treasury in the previous two years. Here is how HSJ has covered the department’s recent history of ...
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NewsDH on course for biggest underspend this parliament
The Department of Health is this year on course for its biggest annual underspend in the current parliament – with none of the unused budget due to be carried over for future use, today’s Budget revealed.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe case for large scale change in the NHS
The argument for major change is undeniable, says John Rooke
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Blogs
A decade of austerity should spur on fundamental care reform
CCGs have the opportunity to reform patterns of service provision and ways of working.A decade of austerity could spur on some long overdue changes to our health and care system..