MPs have called for a radical reform of clinical negligence compensation to deliver payments to patients faster, incentivise improvements in care, and reduce costs.
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NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided funding for the development of virtual wards over the next two years, but warned that systems must include the remote monitoring schemes in long-term strategies and spending plans from 2024/25.
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Welsh health minister Eluned Morgan has announced a plan to transform care and tackle elective waiting backlogs, promising funding of £60m over four years.
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While the WHO is underlining that the pandemic remains a global public health emergency, UK healthcare attention is firmly on elective recovery. But is the focus broad enough? And does the plan need to be rethought?
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The NHS spent £57bn on acute care in 2020/21 – the first full year of the Covid pandemic – according to patient-level cost data for England published by NHS Digital.
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Pilots of more frequent cost collections could begin this autumn as NHS England and NHS Improvement look set to recommend a quarterly programme.
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Total core integrated care board (ICB) allocations will grow by an average of 3.6% in 2022/23 once the funding is adjusted to move systems closer to their target.
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Integrated care boards (ICBs) will start with a financial clean slate, with predecessor clinical commissioning group deficits written off if the new boards and systems deliver break-even in each of their first two years, final NHS financial guidance for 2022/23 has confirmed.
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Decisions about pooling health and social care budgets must continue to be taken locally, despite the government’s expectation that their use should expand and become routine, according to NHS Providers.
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Auditors have issued a disclaimer of opinion on the delayed 2019/20 accounts of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust due to risks of material misstatement and an inability to obtain sufficient audit evidence.
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