FINANCE: West Midlands Ambulance Service Trust is planning £9m in cost improvements in 2012-13 to enable it to make a £4m surplus.
The savings will need to be made against a backdrop of falling payments.
The board was told that thee plan was to slightly reduce the number of staff - by 31 WTE - while activity is expected to grow by around 4.5 per cent.
January
What NHS England isn’t telling you, and more indispensable insight for commissioners. This week by HSJ commissioning correspondent Sharon Brennan.
The NHS has been warned of “crippling” finance charges from its PFI contracts over the next decade, when aggregate repayments on the deals will reach their peak.
NHS providers must submit a business case to show setting up a wholly owned subsidiary company yields value beyond VAT savings, under new proposals from NHS Improvement.
A former regional adviser for the Care Quality Commission has been appointed executive medical director at a community and mental health trust.
PATIENT SAFETY: An ambulance pilot that could have contributed to the death of at least one patient had no ‘risk assessment and limited risk management’, NHS England has concluded.
Commissioners warned that a controversial South East Coast Ambulance Foundation Trust pilot that added 10 minutes to some emergency response times may have contributed to the death of at least one patient, leaked emails seen by HSJ reveal.
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