All articles by Sally E Gainsbury – Page 3
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£400m spending limit forced on NHS
NHS organisations will be permitted to spend just 400m of their 1.7bn surplus next financial year and will not get the full increase in resources pledged to them by the Treasury.
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Department of Health and Capita sign website contract
The Department of Health and Capita have finally signed a contract that will see the outsourcing specialists run the 'front door' to the NHS through the website www.nhs.uk.
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Baby dies after NHS misses eight chances to stop abuse
NHS professionals had eight opportunities in just one month to spot that a 17-month-old baby was being seriously abused.
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GP pay to reflect outcomes
The GP bonus scheme will be reformed to better link GP earnings to outcomes for patients under proposals outlined by the Department of Health.
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NHS trusts may face charges for 'never events'
Politicians have urged health officials to make hospital trusts bear the full cost of so-called 'never events' to help redress the imbalance between weak commissioners and strong providers.
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PCTs outsource provider arms to foundation trust
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees teaching primary care trusts have outsourced their entire provider arms to a local foundation trust.
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PCTs to share £3m to tackle alcohol misuse
The Department of Health has announced which 20 primary care trusts in the most deprived areas will receive a share of a £3m pot to tackle alcohol misuse.
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North East Ambulance Service reform plans 'can go ahead'
The Independent Reconfiguration Panel has thrown out an attempt by Tees Valley councillors to halt plans to reform the North East Ambulance Service.
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NHS managers support top-up payments, HSJ poll reveals
NHS managers support the decision to allow top-up payments but believe it will make the NHS less equal and doubt it will work as a long-term solution.
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Health inequalities: wealthiest overfunded as the poor lose out
NHS services in the poorest and most needy parts of the country are being systematically underfunded to the benefit of the healthiest and wealthiest.Analysis by HSJ of the budgets allocated to GPs to pay for drugs and hospital care for their patients show that the wealthiest tenth of the population ...
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Health inequalities could be forgotten as cash gets tight
Tighter NHS finances could mean the quest to reduce health inequalities will either get nasty - or be forgotten altogether.
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Monitor chair calls on PCTs to set out plans for services
The coming years will see an increase in foundation trusts running primary care services, as well as culls of failing hospitals, executive chair of the regulator Monitor Bill Moyes has predicted.
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PCTs say realpolitik is behind unequal healthcare
Primary care trusts claim confusion, self-interest and realpolitik lie at the heart of the unfair distribution of NHS resources.
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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.
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New formula spells end for minimum practice income guarantee
GPs and NHS Employers have agreed a formula that could phase out the minimum practice income guarantee. The guarantee has been strongly criticised, as it means GP practices suffer no financial penalty if patients choose to go elsewhere.
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Treasury eyes hidden PCT surpluses
Increased demand for health services as recession bitesTwo-year timetable for service reconfiguration and investmentSurpluses vulnerable
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City shockwaves threaten NHS budget
Economists are warning this week's£38bn rescue plan for UK banks creates a "structural hole" in public finances that will make NHS funding cuts and claw-backs inevitable.The government has insisted the bank bail-out will not affect public finances. A senior Treasury source said there were no plans to revisit the commitments ...
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Foundations bear brunt of crisis
£7.5m lost in Icelandic banking collapseFears over the safety of surpluses from Treasury claw-backsBut opportunities for vertical integration
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Trusts expect tight pinch from 2010
Real terms cuts expected to payment by results tariffTough road ahead for aspirant foundationsQuery over future of capital investmentStaff costs may fall in real terms
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NHS could be sued under free market
Plans to create a European Union free market in public healthcare could open the health service to legal challenges from patients demanding treatments that are not available in the UK.