FINANCE: University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust achieved 91 per cent of its £18.8m cost improvement plan savings in 2011-12.
Board papers for April reveal this was an improvement on the beginning of the year. In quarter one only 70 per cent of planned savings were achieved.
The £1.8m slippage was attributed to “later than expected commencement of some schemes with the largest shortfalls.”
April 2012
The £25m promised by Boris Johnson to hospices and palliative care services will come from existing NHS budgets and may require efficiencies in other areas, HSJ has been told.
A cap on the number of patients that can register at Babylon GP at Hand’s new Birmingham service will be lifted next month, providing certain criteria are met, after commissioners backed the move this afternoon.
A specialist cancer trust increased its income from private patients by £17m last year, while the service as a whole saw non-NHS healthcare revenues rise by 6 per cent.
A university and a teaching trust have launched a degree designed to train people for a new digital healthcare scientist role within the NHS.
The medical director at University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust has been appointed as the organisation’s new permanent chief executive, to take over from Dame Julie Moore.
One of the country’s largest trusts will received £162m of central loans to help support the balance sheet following its merger with its neighbour.
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