All articles by Henry Anderson – Page 6
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NewsICS holds out against NHSE financial targets
A single system has refused to sign up to financial targets set by NHSE, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHSE budget cuts hit maternity, children and prevention
Maternity, prevention, mental health, and children’s services are the national budgets seeing the biggest cuts after government and NHS England decided to slash ringfenced allocations, HSJ analysis reveals.
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CEO InterviewCEO interview: Richard Jenkins, chief executive, Rotherham and Barnsley Foundation Trusts
This is the latest in a series of interviews with chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
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News‘Unaffordable’ care spending driven by rush to clear hospital beds
The rush from acute hospitals to “free up beds” is probably behind an “unaffordable” rise in an integrated care board’s social care spending, it has been told.
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NewsRevealed: The systems still reliant on agency staff
Six systems are still using more than 30 per cent of their temporary staffing spend to employ agency workers, HSJ research has revealed.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Inside the sausage factory
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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News£6bn underlying deficit ‘could derail 10-Year Plan’
The underlying deficit in the NHS provider sector has returned to pre-covid levels and could derail the government’s reform plans, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsLast-minute ICS bailouts ‘fuel distrust with NHSE’
Integrated care systems across the country have received last-minute bailouts to improve their financial positions at the end of 2024-25, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust CEO off work after clash with chair
An NHS trust chief executive is on leave from the role following a row with their chair, HSJ has learned.
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NewsICB director takes on NHSE finance role
NHS England has appointed an integrated care board director as deputy chief financial officer.
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NewsICBs in dispute with provider over ‘ticking timebomb’ drug costs
Multiple NHS commissioners are embroiled in a legal row with a private company they say is “intensively” marketing its online weight-loss drugs service, which could cost them hundreds of millions of pounds a year.
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NewsNHSE ‘ignoring trusts’ pleas for fair funding’
Mental health and community trust bosses have warned they could be forced to cut services because they may lose out under the formula used to distribute pay rise funding.
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NewsICB chair announces sudden departure
The chair of the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has resigned suddenly, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCut corporate services spend, trusts told
NHS England’s incoming chief executive has set out plans to cut corporate staffing, sub-contract support services, and introduce an NHS-wide voluntary redundancy scheme.
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NewsICBs ordered to cut costs by 50%
Integrated care boards have been told to cut their running costs in half by October.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Mackey’s new incentives
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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NewsElective payment cap could be axed
NHS England and the government are considering scrapping a cap on elective payments which is set to take effect at the end of the month, HSJ understands.
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NewsNHSE chief operating officer quits
Two more NHS England board members are stepping down, as much of the organisation’s senior leadership team is overhauled following the appointment of transition CEO Sir Jim Mackey.
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NewsExclusive: NHSE finance chief quits in top team overhaul
Julian Kelly, NHS England’s chief financial officer, is to step down in a matter of weeks as part of an overhaul to bring NHSE under closer government control, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCancer tests and virtual wards targeted for new cuts
Recently-opened cancer testing centres and virtual wards will be among the services cut back as the NHS seeks to eliminate a £6.6bn forecast deficit, senior leaders have told HSJ.