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Tag Archives: NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure
Record Levels of NHS Trust Deficits (BBC News / King’s Fund)
Summary Hospitals and other NHS trusts have announced record combined financial deficits, well in excess of £2 billion. A whistleblower has alleged dubious accounting procedures, in the form of unorthodox “financial alchemy”, to disguise the true level of deficits. Full … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Agency Staff Spending Capped, Ambulance Patients: Long A&E Handover Delays, Ambulance Quality Indicators, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Targets, Anita Charlesworth: Health Foundation, BBC Health News, Better Value in the NHS, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Delayed Discharges, Difficult Headlines: Troubled Times in NHS, Financial Alchemy (Fiddling Books: Allegation), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Government Response to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Spending Review (2016), Hospital Activity Rates and Funding, Key Performance Indicators, King’s Fund Quarterly Monitoring Report, Management Consultants, Monitor, NHS Ambulance Trusts, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Overspends, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Spending, NHS Spending on Private Ambulance Providers, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, NHS Waiting Times, Operational Performance, Quarterly Monitoring Reports, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Trends in Hospital Activity and Funding, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches
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Escalating NHS Trust Deficits: Not Unexpected (BBC News / Monitor)
Summary NHS Trusts in England have run-up a £930 million “worst for a generation” deficit in the first three months of this financial year. Regulators have also noted that performance measures on waiting times for access to hospital treatment and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Agency Staff Spending Capped, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Performance Indicators, Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Health News, Better Value in the NHS, Cancer Waiting Times, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Comparisons of NHS Spending With Health Spending Internationally (King's Fund 2016), Contract and Agency Staff, Cost-Effectiveness, Daily Mail, Diagnostic Waiting Times, EBITDA, EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest Tax Depreciation and Amortisation, Elective Waiting Times, EU Referendum Debate: BBC News Reality Check, European Union Referendum, European Union Referendum Debate: BBC Reality Check, Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Incentives Rewards and Sanctions, Key Performance Indicators, Management Consultants, Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, NHS Waiting Times, Operational Performance, Operational Performance: Accident and Emergency, Operational Performance: Infection Control, Operational Performance: Mental Health, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reward Systems, Rewarding Failure, Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Staffing (Hospitals), Stevens Challenge, Taxpayers’ Alliance, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Pressures
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More on Extra Funding Requirements for the NHS? (BBC News / King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund has proposed that the NHS in England probably needs £2 billion more next year, given the extent of deteriorating performance on some targets and the rising numbers of NHS trust deficits. The King’s Fund briefing has … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Fair Access to Care (FACS), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee, Health: Financing, House of Commons Health Committee, Integration of Health and Social Care, Minimum Staffing Levels, Monitor, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nurse Staffing Levels, Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Staffing (Hospitals), Taxation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding
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NHS Funding Shortage Forecast: Debate Proposed (BBC News / Times / House of Commons Health Select Committee / Nuffield Trust / Independent)
Summary Nine influential signatories to a letter published in the Times have asked for a national debate on how the NHS in England is funded. The authors of this letter assert that challenges from an ageing and growing population, plus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Allyson Pollock: Queen Mary University of London, Any Qualified Provider (AQP), BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4: More or Less Programme, Benefits of Integrated Care, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cancer Care Integraton in Staffordshire, Cancer Test Waiting Times, Care UK, Cathy Warwick: Chief Executive of Royal College of Midwives, CCGs in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health: Queen Mary University of London, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network, Chris Hopson: Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Ciaran Devane: Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, Ciaran Devane: Macmillan Cancer Support, Clive Efford (Labour MP), Commissioners’ Income and Expenditure, Commissioning Private Sector Providers, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Conservative Conference (Birmingham: September 2014), Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Creeping Privatisation in NHS (sic), Cross-Boundary Care Pathway Redesign, Demand-Side Factors, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Derriford Hospital (Plymouth), Diabetes and Multiple Morbidities, Dr Dan Poulter (Former Health Minister), Dr David Richmond: President of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr Hilary Cass: President of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Dr John Middleton: Acting President of Faculty of Public Health, Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Maureen Baker: Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Peter Carter: Chief Executive and General Secretary at Royal College of Nursing, Dr Peter Swinyard: GP Swindon and National Chairman of The Family Doctor Association, Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Financial Constraints, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies (PAC Report 2015), FOI: Freedom of information, Former Conservative Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter, Foundation Trust Network (FTN), Fragility of NHS Finances, Guardian, Health Leaders' Panel (Nuffield Trust), Health Policy, Health Policy Conversation, Henny Braund: Chief Executive of Anthony Nolan, Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Privatisation), House of Care Model, House of Commons Health Select Committee, House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC), Independent Commission on Whole Person Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Jean-Pierre van Besouw: Royal College of Anaesthetists, Jeremy Hughes (Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive), Lesley Anne Alexander: Chief Executive of Royal National Institute of Blind People, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Conditions and The Mandate, Lord Adebowale: Turning Point, Macmillan Cancer Support, Managing Care of People With Long-Term Conditions, Margaret Hodge, Maureen Baker: Royal College of GPs, McKesson, Michelle Mitchell: Chief Executive of the MS Society, Moira Auchterlonie: Chief Executive of Family Doctor Association, More or Less Programme (BBC Radio 4), Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multimorbidity, National Health Policy Conversation, National Strategy for Long Term Conditions, NHS Budget Spent on Commissioning Private Sector Providers, NHS Cannock Chase CCG, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Charges: Politics and History, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Expenditure, NHS Funding Gap, NHS North Staffordshire CCG, NHS Privatisation Debate (sic), NHS Reform, NHS Reinstatement Bill (2015), NHS Resource Spending in England, NHS Spending, NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nicholson Challenge, Nuffield Trust: Health Leaders' Panel, Numbers of the Year 2014: BBC Radio 4; More or Less Programme, One-Week Target for All Urgent Diagnostic Tests Waiting Times, Outsourcing, Over-Reliance on Agency Staff, Parity of Esteem, Payday Loans Attitude to Workforce Planning, Peninsula Treatment Centre (Care UK), Peter Carter: Royal College of Nursing, Peter Roderick: Queen Mary University of London, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Policy, Policy Context, Policy Development, Policy Innovation, Political Posturing, Population Change, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Schemes, Private Finance Initiative Payments, Private Profits Cap (Labour Proposal), Private Sector Providers, Privatisation (Backdoor), Privatisation (Debate), Proactive Care Programme, Professor Caroline MacEwen: President of Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Public Accounts Committee, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Attitudes and Expectations, Purchaser-Provider Split in the NHS, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rising Expectations, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Rt Hon. 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