All QIPP articles – Page 2
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NewsTariff reveals NHS savings targets for 2015-16
NHS pricing authorities will require all providers to deliver another 3.8 per cent in efficiency savings next year, while tweaking the controversial “marginal rate” for emergency admissions to ease the financial strain on smaller hospitals
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SupplementsEfficiency: Why trusts should think seriously about patient hotels
This week’s HSJ Efficiency supplement looks at the growing phenomenon of patient hotels
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NewsNHS England and UCLH in contracting dispute
NHS England is in dispute with University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust over £75m of the trust’s specialised services contract for this financial year.
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NewsExclusive: Regulator to tell FTs to re-do overly optimistic plans
Monitor has asked foundation trusts to re-think their recently submitted two-year plans, claiming their assumptions were unrealistically optimistic at a time of escalating financial pressure.
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NewsMPs: Monitor ‘must not be an obstacle to change’
Acute services in the NHS in England are facing a year of particular financial pressure in 2015-16, when changes to funding arrangements will see £2bn transferred to community health and social care provision, a parliamentary report has warned.
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NewsUpdated: DH forecasts tightest financial year end since 2006
The Treasury has revealed that the Department of Health is forecasting a zero underspend on its revenue budget for 2013-14, in what one expert said was a sign of how “finances are deteriorating very quickly across the NHS”.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow CSUs can make radical change run smoothly
CSUs can be honest brokers across the system
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HSJ KnowledgeE-prescriptions change the game for acute trusts
The NHS is expected to be paperless by 2018
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NewsExclusive: Non-acute providers allege institutional bias
Healthcare leaders from across the community and mental health sectors have united against plans to cut the tariff price for their services by a fifth more than the reduction proposed for acute providers.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe skills clinicians need to make QIPP work
Training programme case studies from Scotland and Wales
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CommentHigh value care matters more than high quality
High quality care is not always the most effective
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NewsData video: the growing QIPP shortfall explained
Commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans
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CommentIntegration fund is biggest worry for finance directors
Practical implications of £3.8bn fund cause concern
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NewsGrowing QIPP shortfall predicted
NHS commissioners are slipping behind on their efficiency plans and becoming more pessimistic about whether they will hit their year-end targets, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeSolving the radiology workforce challenge
How to achieve increased output with fewer staff and resources
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CommentChris Calkin: Closing the value gap
The NHS needs to help the public better understand the problems facing a modern health service
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NewsSharp fall in trust confidence on savings targets
There has been a sharp decline in the confidence of trust finance directors that they will meet their annual cost improvement targets, according to the latest King’s Fund quarterly monitoring report.
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NewsExclusive: Huge variation emerges in CCGs' efficiency ambition
There is a 23-fold variation in the scale of clinical commissioning groups’ efficiency targets, with at least 11 groups planning to make savings of under 1 per cent, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeGPs can transform patient services
It is the ideal time for GPs to take a lead on service design