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HSJ KnowledgeHow to utilise a clinical audit to achieve 'equity and excellence' in healthcare
To measure quality performance within the NHS has been and still is a challenging task. New approaches to measuring and reporting need to inform the service’s overall approach if it is to use reporting to properly achieve excellence in healthcare, argues Seraphim Patel.
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News
Lansley identifies 20 'unsustainable' trusts
The government has identified 20 trusts whose “clinical and financial stability is at risk” because of “cash-flow shortages” and legacy debt.
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Comment
How public and private sector partnerships could stimulate efficiency improvements
The slow uptake of technology is restricting much needed improvements in quality and efficiency. Creating partnerships between NHS organisations and private companies could speed things up, reports NHS graduate management trainee Maxine Miles.
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HSJ Local
NAO to investigate St Helens and Knowsley FT bid
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of two in the North West to be visited by the National Audit Office for its research on the challenges to achieving foundation trust status, according to a report to the region’s strategic health authority.
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HSJ Local
NAO to probe Pennine Acute FT bid
STRUCTURE: The trust is one of two in the North West to be visited by the National Audit Office for its research on the challenges to achieving foundation trust status, according to a report to the region’s strategic health authority.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why the National Audit Office is wrong about the future for social enterprises
A National Audit Office report on the programme intended to encourage health organisation staff to form social enterprises has found no evidence of its value for money. But, argue Cobbetts LLP colleagues Kevin Jacquiss and Ross Griffiths, this disregards the achievements the programme could deliver - given enough time.
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News
GPs pocketing millions in buildings payments, investigation finds
Doctors are receiving six-figure windfalls in surgery rent and sale payments, an investigation has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Simple steps in reducing wastage can have serious savings for NHS budgets
The big question in the health service is, where can the NHS make savings without compromising patient care? GS1 UK health sector manager Roger Lamb highlights examples where simple technology is reducing drug and stock wastage
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News
DH in row with NAO over value for money of social enterprises
A report claiming that social enterprises run by staff might not deliver better services or produce financial savings, has sparked a row between the Department of Health and the National Audit Office.
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News
Auditors to query use of foundations’ resources
A number of foundation trusts are likely to face “qualifications”, querying the accuracy of their 2010-11 accounts, because of questions over their use of resources, auditors have warned.
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News
NAO find targets led to a 'skewed' approach
Ambulances were dispatched unnecessarily on more than two million occasions in a year because of a “skewed” approach to performance management caused by response time targets.
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News
NHS waste costing millions of pounds annually
The NHS can save millions of pounds a year on the products it buys by making a concerted effort to tackle waste, MPs have said.
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News
NPfIT 'should be scrapped' after NAO verdict
Ministers are facing calls to scrap both the National Programme for IT and the agency responsible for managing it, after a damning report concluded that the scheme will not deliver its primary aim or represent value for money.
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News
Increase PFI plan values, managers told
NHS organisations should press for better value for money from existing private finance initiatives and find new ways of funding projects, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
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News
NHS missing out on high-cost equipment savings
The NHS is missing the chance to save money on expensive equipment by failing to collaborate on purchasing and maintenance, a National Audit Office investigation has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Steps to improve mental health productivity can ease the pressure on budgets
The productivity challenge facing the whole NHS may well hit hardest those services traditionally most vulnerable to funding cuts - but there is scope to cope, says King’s Fund senior researcher Chris Naylor .
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News
Procurement inefficiencies costing £500m, report finds
Providers could save £500m by standardising orders of products like paper and gloves and sharing the savings made by purchasing in bulk across a group of trusts, according to a National Audit Office report.
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News
Hospital productivity has fallen over last decade
Hospital productivity has fallen by an average of 1.4 per cent a year since the publication of the NHS Plan ten years ago, the National Audit Office has said.
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News
Trusts failing to review dementia readmissions
Trust boards are failing to review data on readmissions for patients with dementia, a major clinical audit has found.
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News
Pension changes to cost workers £67bn - NAO
Changes to public service pension schemes introduced in 2007-08 will cost NHS staff, teachers and civil servants a total of £67bn over the next 50 years, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.
