News

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• Cost pressures keep on rising as Budget brings mixed news
• Shared services boost
• Special relationship
• PFIs deliver value but limit savings potential
• NHS faces ‘greatest challenge’
• HFMA delivers CRC briefing to the desktop
• Wales takes steps to close funding gap
• Scotland hit by job cuts
• News review – Queen’s Speech health debate, government policy drip feed and NHS Confederation conference
• News analysis: Emergency measures
  The government has wasted no time in making big economic changes and the NHS faces a major shake-up in the way it operates. As Steve Brown reports, a revised operating framework for 2010/11 sets the scene.

Comment

• Finance to the fore
  The NHS faces demands for management cost reductions – but it needs finance professionals like never before, says HFMA president Paul Assinder.
• Collaboration key in ‘greatest challenge’
  As FT finance directors gather for their annual conference, HFMA FT Finance faculty chair Martin Shaw says FT finance directors must seize opportunities for improvement as they face up to potentially reducing income.
• All change
  HFMA chief executive Mark Knight on what the new government means for the association.

Features

• The big entrance
  New Monitor chairman Steve Bundred has wasted no time in proposing the removal of FTs’ assets and liabilities from the public sector balance sheet.
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• New lease of life
  As capital constraints limit trusts’ options for updating medical equipment, a new NHS Supply Chain leasing framework could help.
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• Diversion tactics
  Demand management is set to dominate thinking in the NHS over the next 12 months. How can it help maintain financial balance?
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• Long haul to savings
  The NHS is expected to make big savings in procurement. But this involves much more than securing the lowest price, says the Department of Health’s Tim Kempster.
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• Exceptional support
  The cost of individual funding requests vary widely across PCTs. But the National Prescribing Centre can help PCTs balance financial accountability, ‘exceptional’ clinical need and the demands of the NHS constitution, says Philip Grant.
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