All Payment by results (PbR) articles – Page 9
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News
Monitor: patient costs could inform national prices
Monitor could use the cost of individual patients to set national prices for NHS acute care as early as 2016-17.
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NewsExclusive: Stuart Bell to leave South London and Maudsley
Stuart Bell chief executive of the South London and Maudsley mental health foundation trust is to leave his job after 13 years, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsInformation Centre to focus on cost of over-60s hospital care
Patients aged 60 and over account for more than half of the income hospitals receive under the payment-by-results tariff, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has reported.
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NewsHealth economies rush to pilot year-of-care tariff
More than 90 sets of providers and commissioners have shown interest in becoming one of the six trial sites for year-of-care tariff trials, HSJ has learned.
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NewsDH reveals swift year-of-care tariff plans
The Department of Health has revealed details of its plans to “quickly but carefully” introduce year-of-care tariffs in a bid to cut hospital admissions and encourage community based treatment.
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NewsJim Easton: Board to move quickly on year of care tariffs
The NHS Commissioning Board is moving “quickly but carefully” to adopt year of care tariffs, which are considered essential if the service is to meet its £20bn efficiency challenge.
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NewsNHS data skewed by efforts to protect trust finances
The “disproportionate” financial implications of changes to the way the NHS classifies patients have led it to maintain “inaccurate recording and inaccurate payments”, the Audit Commission has reported.
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HSJ Local
Trust loses out on cash as patients 'readmitted' for just 10 minutes
PERFORMANCE: Patients are being classified as readmissions at Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust despite spending less than 90 minutes in the hospital, an analysis has found.
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NewsMarket competition test proposed for trusts seeking extra funding
Monitor might refuse to allow local increases to the prices paid to NHS trusts unless commissioners have proven they could not buy the services more cheaply elsewhere, an independent report for the regulator has suggested.
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NewsYork FT must change gatekeeping role, says competition panel
The competition regulator has ruled against a deal between a primary care trust and a hospital which saw the latter refer some patients who it went on to treat itself.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: forget hospitals, competition will thrive in non-acute services
“There are rich commercial pickings in non-acute care.”
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CommentNoel Plumridge: an uncertain future for payment by results
Where is the detail on tariff for 2013 and beyond?
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Blogs
Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
Mark was angry, and the more he read, the angrier he got.
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HSJ Local
NHS Lincs' PBR expenditure £26m above plan
FINANCE: Spending on PBR-based acute care - which falls within the remit of CCGs - is expected to be £26m above plan by year end in Lincolnshire.
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NewsIntegrated care needs 'ambitious' target to succeed, DH told
Ministers will be in a “difficult position” if they ignore advice to set a national target to drive integrated care, the chief executive of the King’s Fund has warned.
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Comment'Make change a mantra, and lead the patient centered revolution'
Traditional financial incentives have led to behaviours that serve the interests of organisations, not those of patients. It’s time to lead a revolution for change, and make healthcare a patient centered
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HSJ Local
Homerton looks for performance and 'market share analysis' software
COMMERCIAL: The east London acute trust has tendered for software that will analyse “clinical efficiency and productivity, PbR and relative risk ratios”.
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CommentResults business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011
Derek Miller reports on the HSJ Payment By Results conference 2011, where a conflict emerged between the official message on PbR and what is actually happening on the ground between cash strapped PCTs and providers.
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NewsOperating framework piles pressure on hospital sector
The NHS’s financial plans for 2012-13 will further concentrate pressure on acute providers and could force a wave of hasty mergers, experts have warned.
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NewsCommissioners require 'significant help' with mental health tariff
Commissioners will struggle to implement an operating framework requirement to pay for mental health services under tariff without “significant help”, according to the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.