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Tag Archives: NHS Finances
Brexit Dividend to Cover NHS Funding Settlement: Assisted by Undisclosed Tax Increases? (BBC News)
Summary The announcement of a 3.4% annual funding increase, over the next five years, represents a significant and politically astute compromise development, in advance of the NHS’s 70th birthday. Wise heads in the Treasury wanted to limit annual NHS budget … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged 10 Downing Street, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, £1.8 Billion NHS Cash Injection (August 2019), £850 Million Funding to Upgrade Outdated Facilities and Equipment (August 2019), Barnett Consequentials, Barnett Formula, BBC Business News, BBC Health News, BBC Politics News, BBC Reality Check Team, Better Access to Mental Health Services, Brexit, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Caroline Dinenage MP: Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage: Care Minister, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Economic Sustainability, Fair and Balanced Taxation Increase, Five Financial Tests for Sustainable NHS Funding and Appropriate Spending, Her Majesty’s Treasury, HM Treasury, Improving Cancer Care, Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, ippr: Institute for Public Policy Research, Jeremy Hunt: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Long-Term Funding Settlement for NHS: Letter to Theresa May (June 2018), Lord Darzi Review of Health and Care: Interim Report, Lord David Prior (Deputy Chair of the Lord Darzi Review), New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), NHS 70: Objectives and Narrative, NHS 70th Birthday, NHS Budget Growth: 1956/7 to 2016/7 (IFS Data), NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Better Use of Capital Investment, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Effective Demand Management, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Eliminating Provider Deficits, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Improving Productivity and Efficiency, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Reducing Unwarranted Variations, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Announcement (June 2018): 10-Year Plan to Follow, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Funding Projections Versus Historic 4% Growth, NHS Sustainability, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts Debt Burden, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Performance Standards, Prevention, Prevention Approaches, Prime Minister's Office, Quality and Sustainability, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP: Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Rt Hon. Professor the Lord Darzi, Securing the Future: Funding Health and Social Care Into the 2030s Report (2018), Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It (George Santayana), Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Upward Spending Pressures
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NHS Operational Productivity: GIRFT Meets Mental Health and Community Health Services (Lord Carter / DHSC)
Summary Lord Carter’s latest report in the NHS Operational Productivity series shifts the attention to unwarranted variations in mental health and community health services. Potential savings of around £1 billion in efficiencies could be made by 2020/21, allegedly, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Growing Consensus on NHS and Social Care Sustainability; and the Need for Tax Increases? (BBC News / Health Foundation / IFS / IPPR / King’s Fund)
Summary The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation estimate that the NHS needs an additional 4% funding, per year, over the next 15 years (as opposed to the currently projected 2%). These estimates are timed in anticipation of … Continue reading →
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Lord Carter’s Report on NHS Efficiency Savings (BBC News / Department of Health / NHS Improvement)
Summary Proposed efficiency savings could help the NHS save £5 billion per year by 2020, according to the Labour peer Lord Carter’s report. Full Text Link Reference Hospital bed-blocking ‘costs’ NHS England £900m a year. London: BBC Health News, February … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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NHS Efficiency Map: Saving On Printing Costs, NHS Efficiency Map: System Efficiency, NHS Efficiency Map: Theatre Management, NHS Efficiency Map: Turning Around Procurement Function, NHS England Specialist Pharmacy Services, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Estates, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Improvement, NHS Manufactured Medicines Product Catalogue, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP), NHS Productivity, NHS Purchasing Price Index, NHS Southern Procurement Partnership, NHS Supply Chain, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trust Sickness and Absence Rates, Non-Specialist Acute Hospitals, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nursing Informatics Team, Nursing Informatics Team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Openness and Transparency, Operating Theatres Availability, Operating Theatres Scheduling, Operating Theatres: 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Reducing Variations in Readmission Rates, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Review of Pathology Quality Assurance, Rostering at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Sickness and Absence Rates, Specialling (Enhanced care), Specialling at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Spending Review Commitment to Investment in Digital Technologies, State Nationalisation of Generic Medicines (Proposal): Labour Party Conference (2019), Strategic Data Collection Service (SDCS), Surrey Pathology Services (SPS), Tackling Variation, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Weighted Activity Unit (WAU), Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Framework for Governance Reviews, Well-Led Indicators (CQC)
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Lord Carter’s Proposed Plans for NHS Efficiency Savings (BBC News / Department of Health)
Summary In his latest report on the potential of good leadership for providing NHS cost savings, high-quality patient care and more efficient use of resources, Lord Patrick Carter has released further plans as to how hospitals might collectively save up … Continue reading →
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Tagged Atlas of Variations in NHS Hospitals Practice, Atlas of Variations in Procurement, BBC Health News, Behaviour Change Opportunities, Cancer Services: Hospitals Savings Targets, Cardiology: Hospitals Savings Targets, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Clinical Quality Improvement, Community Nursing: Hospitals / NHS Savings Targets, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Continuous Learning Culture, Emergency Medicine: Hospitals Savings Targets, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Finance and Procurement, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, General Medicine: Hospitals Savings Targets, General Surgery: Hospitals Savings Targets, Healthcare Quality Improvement, High Cost Drugs: Hospitals Savings Targets, Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation, Hospital Productivity, Hospitals Savings Targets, Intensive and Critical Care: Hospitals Savings Targets, Learning Culture, Learning for Improvement, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS eProcurement Strategy, NHS Estates, NHS Estates Efficiency Fund, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Hospital Nurse Roster Analysis, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Productivity, NHS Reference Costs, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS: Safest and Most Efficient Healthcare System in World (Ambition), NHS: Safest Healthcare System in the World (Ambition), Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Hospitals Savings Targets, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Paediatrics: Hospitals Savings Targets, Pathology: Hospitals Savings Targets, Patient Safety, Professor Tim Briggs: National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency, Quality Improvement, Reducing Variations in Clinical Costs, Reducing Variations in Device and Procedure Selection, Reducing Variations in Infection Rates, Reducing Variations in Litigation Payments, Reducing Variations in Readmission Rates, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Trauma and Orthopaedics: Hospitals Savings Targets, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Waste of Prescription Medicines, Wasted Resources
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How to Save the NHS Billions… Without Rocket Science (BBC News / Department of Health)
Summary The Lord Carter Review, which looks into better procurement, better hiring and management of staff and better use of medicines, implies that the NHS might save around £5 billion per year. It is suggested that much waste of NHS … Continue reading →
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Tagged Absolute Savings Opportunities for Trusts, Adjusted Treatment Index, Adjusted Treatment Index (ATI), Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Ann Farrar: Chief Executive North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, ATI Metric of Productivity, ATI: Measure of Hospital Efficiency, Atlas of Variations in Procurement, Awareness, Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Health News, Behaviour Change Opportunities, Behaviour Change: Individual Approaches, Better Procurement, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Buying Power of NHS, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Clinician Productivity, Collective Purchasing, Cost Savings, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Creative Use of NHS Estate, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Economies of Scale, Efficiency Savings, Estate Efficiencies, Estates, Estates Management, Finance and Procurement, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Four Principles of Medicines Optimisation, Gershon Review (2004-05), GS1 and PEPPOL Standards, High-Value Medical Devices, Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust, Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation, Hospital Productivity, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Investment and Procurement, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Level 0 Output Indicator: Total Cost-Weighted Output, Level 1 Productivity Indicator: Total Operational Expenditure, Level 2 Productivity Indicators: Operational Expenditure Breakdown, Local Government Association Annual Conference (2015), Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Management of Annual Leave and Sickness Absence, Management of Staff Rotas and Shifts, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Procurement, Medicines Waste Awareness, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, Model NHS Hospital, Modular Hospital, National Buying Power of NHS, National Electronic Catalogue of Products, National Joint Registry Pilot, National Productivity Collaboratives, New Social Contract, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS eProcurement Strategy, NHS Estates, NHS Estates Efficiency Fund, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Hospital Nurse Roster Analysis, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Productivity, NHS Provider Expenditure 2014-15, NHS Reference Costs, NHS’s Collective Bargaining Power, NHS’s Collective Buying Power, Nicholson Challenge, Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nudge, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescription Medication: Funded by UK Taxpayer Reminders, Price Range Variations, Procurement Performance Metrics, Procurement Review, Productivity, Productivity in NHS Hospitals, Reducing Number of Product Lines (NHS Consumables), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Sir David Nicholson, Sir Ian Carruthers: Chair of Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, Sir Peter Gershon, Standardisation, Sunshine Act (US), Tony Chambers: Chief Executive of the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Waste of Prescription Medicines, Wasted Resources
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High Intensity Training: Suitable for the Elderly? (BBC News / Journal of the American Geriatrics Society / FSEM)
Summary Short six-second bursts of vigorous exercise, known as High Intensity Training (HIT), could potentially transform the health of elderly people by helping to reduce blood pressure and improve general fitness. Researchers at Abertay University believe HIT could help reduce … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abertay University, Active and Healthy Ageing, Aerobic Exercise, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Well, BBC Health News, BGS, Blood Pressure, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Fitness, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Community Assessment Triage Services (CATs), Connect Physical Health, Department of Sport and Exercise Medicine (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust), Division of Sport and Exercise Sciences: Abertay University (Dundee), Dundee, Exercise, Exercise Medicine, Exercise Medicine Services, Exercise Regimens, Exercise Therapy, Extremely Short-Duration High-Intensity Training, Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Gedling Soft Tissue Clinic: Calverton Practice (Nottinghamshire), Health Expenditure, Health: Financing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, High Intensity Training (HIT), Hypertension, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Leicester Sports Medicine Department, Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Modifiable Risk Factors, Musculoskeletal (MSK) Referrals, Newcastle West Community Musculoskeletal Service (Newcastle upon Tyne), Newcastle West GP Commissioning Group, NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances, NHS Spending, North of Tyne Primary Care Trust (PCT), Nottingham Sport and Exercise Medicine Service, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxfordshire Musculoskeletal Hub, Oxsport (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust Newcastle upon Tyne), Physical Activity, Physical Activity as a Protective Factor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia, Physical Activity Commitments, Physical Activity Programmes, Physical Exercise, Physical Exercise Programmes, Physiotherapy and Orthopaedic Medicine Service (Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust), Prevention, Prevention Approaches, Prevention of Dementia, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Protective Factors, Public Expenditure on Health, Public Health, Regular Aerobic Exercise, Risk and Protective Factors for Cognitive Decline and Dementia, Risk Factors, Risk Factors of Stroke, Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke, Schopwick Surgery Musculoskeletal Service (Elstree), Sedentary Behaviour, Self-Care, Self-Help, SEM: Six Key Points for Commissioners, Short-Duration High-Intensity Training, Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM), Staffordshire and Stoke On Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Staying Healthy for Longer, Successful Ageing, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Vascular and Lifestyle Factors, Vascular Dementia: Prevention, Vascular Risk Factors
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Prevention of Dementia (ILC-UK)
Summary This International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) report summarises current knowledge about how more can be done to prevent the scale of dementia prevalence in future, and to reduce avoidable costs. It considers the potential savings achievable by tackling … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Ageing, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing Population, Alcohol and Drug Consumption, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Misuse, Alzheimer’s Disease: Prevalence, Australian National Dementia Strategy, Awareness Campaigns, Baroness Sally Greengross (APPG on Dementia), Behavioural Pathways to Health Inequalities, Behavioural Risk Factors and Dementia, Blood Pressure, Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease, Burden of Dementia, Cumulative Benefit of Reducing Risk Factors, Dementia Policy, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Dementia: a Public Health Priority, Diabetes Mellitus, Diet and Dementia, Dietary Factors, Disability Dementia and Frailty in Later Life: Mid-Life Interventions, Disease Burden, Eating and Drinking, Education and Awareness, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Financial Constraints, Financial Pressures, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Health Policy, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Hypertension, ILC-UK: International Longevity Centre UK, Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease, Integrated Prevention Approaches, International Longevity Centre, International Longevity Centre UK, International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK), International Longevity Centre UK (ILCUK), Life-Course Approach to Healthy and Active Ageing, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Midlife Hypertension, NHS Finances, Obesity, Obesity Risk, Obesity Time-Bomb, Pfizer Inc., Physical Activity, Physical Activity and the Environment, Physical Inactivity, Policy and Law, Prevalence, Prevalence of Dementia, Preventing Type 2 Diabetes, Prevention, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention Approaches, Prevention of Dementia, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Primary Preventative Strategies, PSSRU: Personal Social Services Research Unit (LSE), Psychosocial Protective and Risk Factors, Public Awareness, Public Health, Public Health Interventions, Reducing the Incidence of Dementia, Risk Factors, Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Diseease, Savings in Private Payments and Informal Care, Secondary Preventative Strategies, Sedentary Behaviour, Sleep Disorders, Smoking, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Socio-Economic Patterning, Staying Healthy for Longer, Successful Ageing, Type 2 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, Unhealthy Behaviours, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Unhealthy Living
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Balancing Quality and Finance (NHS Confederation)
Summary This NHS Confederation briefing summarises a round table discussion about how NHS might achieve the best balance between the need to control or reduce costs and the aim of providing better care. This briefing was produced in partnership with … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS Alliance, NHS Confederation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Achieving Better Value, Balancing Quality and Finance, Barriers and Enablers to Value in Healthcare, Best Value Duty, Better Value, Blame Culture, Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), Care Quality, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Commissioning for Value, Cost–Benefit Analyses, Culture Change, Culture of Candour, Delivering Quality and Value, Disempowering Environments, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, End to Silo Working, Expensive Drugs, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding, Health Funding, Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High Quality Care for All, High Quality Commissioning, Holistic Quality Improvement, Honesty, Internal Distrust: Working Together, Kadcyla, Lack of Direction, Local Commissioning, Misaligned Funding Mechanisms, NHS Culture, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Leadership, NHS Quality, NHS: a Political Football, Openness and Transparency, Partnership and Collaboration, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Payment and Funding Systems, Political Candour, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Quality in the NHS, Quality Payments in the NHS, Quality: Outcomes, Reducing Spending on Expensive Drugs, Regulatory Barriers, Removing Regulatory Barriers, Resistance to Change, Shared System Leadership, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Public Trust, Unresponsive Culture, Value Across Public Services, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Value Opportunities, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Whole Service Approaches, Whole System Integration, Whole System Performance, Whole Systems Design, Working Together for Change
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Massive Opportunity Cost of Fraud and Errors in the NHS? (BBC News / Panorama / Portsmouth University)
Summary Fraud may be costing the NHS £5bn a year. Errors may be costing a further £2bn per year, according to the former head of the NHS anti-fraud section. These losses (to fraud alone) might be used to fund 250,000 … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Annual Fraud Indicator Report, BBC Health News, BBC’s Panorama, Better Procurement, Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at University of Portsmouth, CFS: Counter Fraud Services, Cost Savings, Costs, Counter Fraud Service, Counter Fraud Services: BDO LLP, David Branford: Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Dr Keith Ridge: Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Entitlement Checks for Free Prescriptions, Fighting Fraud, Forensic and Counter Fraud Services at PKF Littlejohn, Fraud, Free Prescriptions, Monitoring, Mr Gee: Director of Counter Fraud Services at BDO LLP, NHS Anti-Fraud Section, NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Counter Fraud Authority, NHS Counter Fraud Service, NHS Finances, NHS Procurement, NHS Protect, NHS Protect: Formerly NHS Counter Fraud Services, Official Downplaying of Fraud Costs, Overpayments, Panorama: Great NHS Robbery, Payroll Expenditure, PKF Littlejohn, Portsmouth University, Prescription Fraud, Prescription Fraud Clampdown, Prescriptions in England, Procurement Review, Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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