All articles by Henry Anderson – Page 4
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NewsStaff at care scandal trust have ‘little left to give’ as spending controls bite
Staff at a scandal-hit trust feel “undervalued and without any autonomy” due to newly imposed financial controls, according to internal emails.
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NewsMore than 500 staff given £100k payouts in NHS restructures
NHS commissioning bodies are to spend more than £200m on redundancy payments over a three-year period following a series of restructures and headcount reduction exercises, NHS England’s latest accounts show.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Rethinking the workforce plan
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsTrust to limit ‘non-essential’ CT scans as deficit rises
A Yorkshire acute trust is reviewing its use of diagnostic scans with a view to “limiting non-essential procedures” as it tries to bring down its deficit, according to internal messages sent to staff.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE is ‘trying to hide the reality’ of health service finances
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsNHS set to breach planned annual deficit in five months
Local NHS bodies have burned through almost all of their annual deficit target in just the first four months of the year, analysis of the latest finance reports by HSJ shows.
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NewsHIT teams to be sent into trusts to improve efficiency
The government will send in teams of clinical experts to 20 trusts to improve theatre productivity, the health and social care secretary has announced.
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NewsLabour will end NHS ‘custom’ of raiding dental budgets, says minister
Stephen Kinnock says dental contract is “absurd” and “dysfunctional” Poor-performing ICBs need to “up their game”, says senior dentist Expert says it is “custom and practice” for NHS to divert dentistry money elsewhere Every penny of dental funding will be spent once the Labour government has carried out ...
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NewsNHS directors brought out of retirement to help tackle financial crisis
Former trust and regional finance directors have been drafted in to support the most financially-challenged integrated care systems by NHS England.
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NewsGovernment must take ‘more control’ of NHSE, says ex-minister
NHS England’s status as an independent body has “gone too far” and needs to be reined in by government, a recent ex-minister has said.
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HSJ LocalStaff criticise ‘disgusting’ cuts at trust with huge savings target
A trust that is trying to cut nearly a tenth of its costs in one year has been criticised by staff for a string of “last minute” cuts to temporary shifts.
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NewsNational bodies ‘failed to help staff with rationing care during covid’
Covid inquiry research finds “room for improvement” for national bodies and regulators Staff report being unable to escalate patients due to bed and workforce shortages NHS England’s representative urges inquiry to consider potential harms from counterfactuals Six in ten healthcare professionals said they lacked support from national bodies ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Winning over the Treasury
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsFirst joint finance director sought by ICBs
Two integrated care boards have announced plans to recruit a shared chief finance officer, in what would be the first such move since ICBs were set up in 2022
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News‘Conflict of interest’ concerns over consultants hired to fix NHS finances
Concerns have been raised that consultants advising systems on savings plans could be “marking their own homework”, with many of the firms having already done similar exercises for the same organisations.
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NewsNHSE warns service will have to cut activity unless it gets more funding
NHS England has told the government that it will have to “slow down” efforts to cut waiting lists without a fresh funding injection, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Labour launches clearout of DHSC non-execs
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting three new board members amid a clearout of advisers appointed under the last government.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSE’s game of chicken with trusts’ cash
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get back in the black. By finance correspondent Henry Anderson.
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NewsICB sanctioned for failing to stop trusts’ over-recruitment
NHS England has issued enforcement notices to an integrated care board and four of its trusts, warning that the additional staff they have recruited are “not financially affordable”.
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NewsNHSE holds back cash support for struggling trusts
Trusts could be forced to slow down payments to suppliers and delay capital projects after NHS England restricted access to cash for providers in deficit, finance directors have warned.