Two leading lights from the NHS finance community and HFMA honorary fellows have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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Though providers reduced spending on agency staff by £700m in 2016/17, they fell short of their planned reduction and will be asked to focus on reducing medical locum spending in 2017/18.
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NHS providers in England had an overall deficit of £791m in 2016/17 and are planning for a 2017/18 aggregate deficit of just under £500m, according to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey.
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NHS staff must be fairly rewarded for their commitment to the health service, according to former health secretary Stephen Dorrell.
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The NHS continued to miss most of its performance targets in April as activity again increased, according to the latest figures from NHS England.
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Peers have slammed the ‘short-sightedness’ of successive governments for failing to plan effectively for the long-term future of the health service and adult social care.
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NHS Improvement has identified wide variation in corporate services costs and said trusts could save more than £400m overall if they all performed as well as the average trust.
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The slow down in funding increases after 2010/11 is beginning to impact on services with public health and community care hardest hit, according to the King’s Fund.
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Chancellor Philip Hammond has recognised that sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) will need further capital investment, allocating an initial £325m to the most developed plans in his Budget today.
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The additional funding for social care announced in today’s Budget received a cautious welcome, but health and social care stakeholders warned that a longer-term solution was needed.
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Publications
Mental health investment standard 2017
21 June 2017
Briefing
Integrated Reporting in the context of the Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales) 2015
15 June 2017
Briefing