HfMA

Healthcare Finance

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  US to learn from past

  The next US president must learn from earlier healthcare reform failures by showing flexibility in pushing towards wider healthcare coverage for the US population, according to US healthcare expert Gail Wilensky.

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  News analysis: Tax targets

  Long trailed, the taxman now has FTs’ commercial profits firmly in its sights and is looking to redefine the scope of activities captured. Steve Brown reports

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
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  Scotland posts strong capital performance

  NHS Scotland showed a strong improvement in 2007/08 in the use of its capital budget, turning two years of underspending into almost full use of its allocation.

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  A Good Result

  NHS trusts and primary care trusts have returned their best financial performance yet, as measured by the Auditors’ Local Evaluation results for 2007/08. The Audit Commission’s Andy McKeon provides the expert commentary.

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  US presidential campaign 2008: healthcare reform revisited

  As the US election cycle enters its final phase, discussions of healthcare reform are again claiming a significant place in the campaigns of the two leading presidential candidates. Gail Wilensky assesses what a new resident at the White House will mean for US healthcare

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  Hitting the button

  Payments for quality begin next year but the acute sector has little experience of performance-related pay. Seamus Ward talks to NHS North West, which has launched the first region-wide quality incentive scheme.

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  Commission Impossible?

  PCTs have been set the challenge of transforming commissioning. Steve Brown talks to one PCT finance director about what commissioners can do to achieve world class status 

  ADDED 06/10/2008

  
• FTN supports status quo

  There should be no change in Monitor’s interpretation of foundation trusts’ private patient income cap, the NHS Confederation’s Foundation Trust Network (FTN) has said.

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• Auditors call for more day cases

  Up to £8m a year could be freed up by increasing the rate of day case surgery in Scotland, according to Audit Scotland.

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• Allow top-ups, says NHS

  NHS organisations have told the Department of Health review of top-ups that the current policy is untenable.

  ADDED 06/10/2008