All NHS Confederation articles – Page 30
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NewsMental health PbR to be reviewed
The government is to review the much-delayed drive to introduce payment by results to mental healthcare.
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NewsTrust issues 18,600 parking fines in 12 months
More than 18,600 parking penalties were issued by three hospitals during 2010, according to consumer group Which?.
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NewsCompetition of services could have 'unintended consequences', warns FTN
“Unbundling” services to subject them to competition will be “very difficult” for the new NHS economic regulator, the head of the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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NewsSlipman to leave independent FT Network after a year
The Foundation Trust Network has announced it will become formally independent of the NHS Confederation on 1 June and will be led by director Sue Slipman until April next year.
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NewsSharp rise in boardroom turnover rates revealed
Turnover rates for NHS trust directors increased by a third in the year to March 2010, according to latest figures from Incomes Data Services.
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HSJ LocalMost trusts to miss moving target on information governance
PERFORMANCE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts will miss a Department of Health target monitoring their safeguarding of personal and patient information, HSJ has been told.
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NewsConfed calls for changes to EU procurement law
The NHS Confederation has urged the European Commission to simplify laws on public procurement and make it easier to negotiate better deals.
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NewsAcute trusts' FT plans slip back a year
More than a quarter of the acute trusts still bidding for foundation status have seen their application date slip by over a year.
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NewsIncrease 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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NewsTrusts set 'unlikely' savings targets for 2011-12
England’s acute trusts have increased the scale of their cost improvement programmes by nearly a third in 2011-12, an HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsTrusts failing on data security
More than half of NHS trusts have missed a government target for making their patient data more secure, HSJ has learned.
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NewsPressure on local authority funds raising risk of legal action
The financial pressures facing local authorities are increasing legal disputes with the NHS, say healthcare lawyers.
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News'Any qualified provider' guidance to slow market expansion
Forthcoming guidance on the “any qualified provider” policy will see competition phased in more slowly than expected and the creation of a national register of private providers authorised to bid for NHS work, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsAccident and emergency waits rise 65 per cent
The number of people waiting more than four hours in A&E has jumped 65 per cent since the government scrapped a target, NHS figures show.
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NewsConfederation must be heard - Farrar
The NHS Confederation must make its voice heard during the listening period for the Health Bill, the body’s new chief executive has said.
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NewsConfederation appoints new chief executive
The NHS Confederation has announced that Mike Farrar is to be its new chief executive.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards' powers in doubt
Local authority health and wellbeing boards must have stronger powers to ensure cooperation from commissioning consortia, the government has been warned.
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NewsGovernment has not done enough to prevent price competition - Confed
The government must set prices across most aspects of health service provision to prevent price competition accelerating under its reforms, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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NewsConfed lobbies for working time directive changes
European working time regulations must change to improve care and reduce costs for acute providers, according to the NHS Confederation.
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NewsBook balancing managers' 'biggest challenge'
The need to save cash and balance the books is the biggest challenge facing NHS managers, according to a survey.