All Sustainability articles – Page 14
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NewsRevealed: Major expansion of 'model hospital' to STPs and CCGs
The “model hospital” system for measuring trusts’ productivity and efficiency is to be expanded over the next two years to CCGs, STPs and ACOs, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsTrusts could be fined millions for poor cybersecurity
The Department of Health could fine trusts up to £17m for failing to keep services running after a cyberattack or hardware failure, under new government proposals.
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NewsAnalysis: 2018-19 is turning point for vanguard savings
Next year is expected to be a tipping point, when new care model vanguards will be saving money than is being spent on them, analysis of their forecasts suggests.
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CommentReducing rising claims payments will not be achieved by improving patient safety
We need urgent legal reform to reduce the overall cost of litigation on the NHS which currently sits at a staggering £65 billion, writes Mike Devlin
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NewsExclusive: Trust bailouts rise to £2.7bn as more rely on loans
NHS trusts were forced to draw down £2.7bn of emergency cash bailouts from the government last year – with two-thirds of hospital providers now relying on government loans to maintain payments to staff and suppliers.
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NewsExclusive: Harvard and Imperial among universities to run NHS Digital Academy
A consortium of Imperial College, Harvard and Edinburgh universities will run a new academy to improve digital skills across the NHS.
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NewsCCGs face 'impossible' choices to deliver higher savings targets
Local commissioners must deliver efficiency savings of almost 4 per cent to meet their financial targets this year, despite failing to get close to last year’s target of 3.2 per cent.
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HSJ LocalCCGs abandon £535m flagship prime provider contract
A tender worth half a billion pounds for end of life care services in Staffordshire has been abandoned due to the development of the area’s STP and difficulties, satisfying the new national scrutiny process, HSJ has learned.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: Healthy headline but NHS is still in the woods
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ Local
Largest CCG faces £178m deficit by end of the year
A clinical commissioning group that is under legal directions is set to add £57m to its spiralling cumulative deficit in 2017-18.
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NewsRevealed: 'Strongest' STPs share £325m of new investment
National leaders have announced which health economies will receive a share of the £325m of extra capital funding that was pledged to the NHS in the spring budget.
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NewsDH reports underspend of £563m
The Department of Health has reported an underspend of £563m for 2016-17, but auditors said it was still “some way from achieving financial sustainability”.
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CommentThe NHS financial regime: cleverly flexible or horribly messy?
The NHS payments and incentives system is constantly evolving. Richard Murray looks at a system that is attempting to manage deficits and, at the same time, introduce new models of care and ways to pay for them.
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CommentAnalysis: Patching the NHS's IT holes after ransomware attack
Ben Heather examines the impact of the WannaCry cyberattack and what is required to plug the security gaps.
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NewsExclusive: One in five trusts did not make critical security updates before cyberattack
More than one in five trusts failed to properly apply security updates that would have protected them against the worst cyberattack in NHS history.
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHSI and NHSE see things differently
HSJ’s email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ LocalInadequate trust set to lose 'unsustainable' stroke services
A trust’s stroke services deemed “unsustainable” by commissioners are set to be taken over by a neighbouring provider.
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NewsRevealed: Trusts receiving biggest cut of £300m STF 'bonus'
Several community and mental health trusts have received significant extra investment funding that was originally intended for the acute sector.
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HSJ LocalCapped expenditure area CCG warns finances 'could deteriorate'
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG
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