All NHS funding gap articles – Page 4
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CommentWhy has the government gone quiet on prevention when we need it most?
The government has gone quiet on prevention, but it could save the NHS, boost the economy and level up the country, writes Chris Thomas
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CommentThe 2020 spending review: Protecting the NHS during a storm
The Treasury has, perhaps, predictably chosen to continue on a path of protecting the NHS first whilst leaving the public health and social care systems exposed, notes Richard Sloggett
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CommentThe government's grasp of the NHS's recovery challenge is questionable
The spending review raises real concerns about whether the government fully grasps the scale of the recovery challenge, writes Anita Charlesworth
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HSJ InteractiveHow the apprenticeship levy can help support and develop managers
The covid crisis has brought some human resource issues in the NHS to a head with some staff feeling demoralised and exhausted. An HSJ webinar, supported by Corndel, explored how the levy money can be used to support managers and rekindle their enthusiasm and passion to work in the NHS
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HSJ Local
NHS England set to accelerate ‘radical’ changes to payment tariffs
NHS England is proposing to accelerate ‘radical’ changes to the way funding is distributed to providers, in a move that would hasten the demise of activity-based payments.
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News
Exclusive: Taxpayers cash could be used to fill hole created by fall in NHS private work
Taxpayers may have to make up for millions of pounds lost in NHS private patient income during the covid pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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CommentThe three key tests for the comprehensive spending review
Charlotte Augst shares her insights on the need to strengthen places and communities to overcome inequalities and rebuild the health and wellbeing sector
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NewsHistoric shift from market principles as NHSE sets out new system-level funding
New financial allocations have been issued to local leaders as part of a historic shift away from market principles and towards system-level working in the NHS.
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CommentAmazed, guilty, excited, incompetent and frustrated — how NHS leaders feel amid the crisis
Niall Dickson discusses the various issues that are confronting NHS leaders during the coronavirus pandemic and testing their performance and levels of resilience
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The two NHS cultures
The scientist and novelist C P Snow’s famous 1959 lecture and book describes The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities as having become polarised.
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News
Government 'writes off' £13bn debts and pledges to review annual charges
The government has announced a “write-off” of £13.4bn of historic debt across the NHS, in what amounts to an expansion of a policy which has been planned for months.
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News
Exclusive: Winners and losers from £3bn spent on ‘transformation’
Less than a third of the £9.2bn pot earmarked to potentially be used for “transformation” over the last three years has been used for that purpose – with more than half England’s health systems receiving under £25m.
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NewsNHSE/I: Too high doctors’ pay will hamper long-term plan delivery
NHS chiefs have backed a 2 per cent pay rise for doctors — but warned anything higher would hinder the ability to deliver on long-term plan commitments.
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News
Treasury sanctions another £400m bailout for DHSC
The Treasury has sanctioned an in-year funding increase of more than £400m for the Department of Health and Social Care, which will effectively help bailout deficits in the NHS.
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News
Exclusive: Trusts set to be let off £10bn debt
NHS providers that owe the government a combined £10bn would see the debts converted into a form of investment that does not have to be repaid, under plans being discussed by national leaders.
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NewsDavid Behan steps up calls for multiyear funding settlement
Health Education England’s chair has stepped up calls for government to give it a multiyear funding settlement in 2020, after a period of “annual budget setting”.
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CommentThe Bedpan: The Tories ‘aren’t stupid enough’ to privatise the NHS
This week: Centre for Policy Studies chief executive Robert Colvile
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NewsExclusive: NHS England spends millions to send patients private over winter
NHS England and Improvement have allocated millions of pounds to outsource elective and diagnostic work to the independent sector, in an attempt to keep waiting lists down during the winter, HSJ has learned.
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LeaderThe NHS begins 2020 with good reason to hope for a better decade
The NHS stands at the threshold of a new decade facing both potentially its most difficult winter in decades and the most hopeful medium-term future since the 2008 financial crash.
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CommentThe Bedpan: ‘The problem with conceding to Simon Stevens…’
This Week: May at 10 by Sir Anthony Seldon