QIPP, Efficiency & Savings

Capturing funds for the NHS estate

20.03.19: Aahsan Rahman, department head of town planning at NHS Property Services (NHSPS), looks at an alternative and perhaps underutilised funding source for the NHS: the town planning system. Developer contributions and the healthcare system At...

The digital revolution for healthcare is now!

20.03.19: Richard Corbridge, chief digital & information officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, focuses on the practices his trust has put in place as part of its digital revolution. After celebrating its 70th year, the NHS is faced with...

Focusing on hand injury prevention would ensure vital benefits for the public and the NHS

18.03.19: Ian McNab, consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon and council member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, outlines how a focus on prevention to hand injury could wider benefits for the NHS and general public. The NHS Long-Term Plan...

£3m Shrewsbury hospital ward opening delayed by fire regulations

15.03.19: A new £3m ward designed to help ease winter pressures at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital is not currently in use because it does not meet fire safety and building regulations. The ward, announced last September, was planned to relieve press...

BMA to sue government over pension changes resulting in ‘huge’ losses

12.03.19: The British Medical Association (BMA) is to sue the government on behalf of thousands of doctors who have claimed they have been forced to join a pension scheme that will result in “huge financial losses” when they retire. BMA s...

Capital investment in NHS being slashed to cover rising day-to-day costs, new report reveals

08.03.19: A short-term approach to NHS funding has led to “years of declining and inadequate” capital spending for the health service, according to a new report from the Health Foundation. The charity has warned that an ageing infrastruct...

Review reveals CCG’s ‘catastrophic’ failings at unused £24m health centre

06.03.19: A review into why a new £24m health centre has never been used by the NHS has revealed a CCG’s plans were “badly flawed” and has led to a “serious situation.” The Altrincham Health and Wellbeing Centre wa...

Trust tells NHS staff they have to reapply for new jobs at Hull and East Yorkshire hospitals

20.02.19: Up to 50 members of NHS staff working at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been told they must apply for new jobs in the NHS. The trust has told the staff they need to apply for new roles as part of a major restructure in...

‘Damaging’ NHS targets ‘have had their day’ claims Lord Prior

15.02.19: NHS targets “have had their day” according to Lord Prior as the head of the health service launches an attack on 25 years of flawed health policies. On the same day A&E performance slumped to the worst level on record, NHS E...

88-year-old NHS secretary become oldest ever person to win age discrimination case

07.02.19: An 88-year-old hospital secretary has become the oldest person to ever win an age discrimination case after she was marched out of her office by security and sacked when colleagues complained about her age and “frailty.” Eileen...

Operating room inefficiencies costing the NHS 300,000 operations a year

04.02.19: Nearly 300,000 more operations could be carried out through better management of surgical lists and holiday booking, an NHS watchdog report has found. In a review commissioned by NHS Improvement (NHSI), it was found that theatres regularly...

‘Fatally flawed’ revamp of Shropshire hospitals given green light

31.01.19: Shrewsbury will house the only A&E centre in Shropshire after plans to restructure a special measures trust’s services were approved by commissioners, but were branded “wholly wrong” and “fatally flawed” by MPs...

Clinical waste scandal: HES collapse ‘put NHS at risk’ as waste backlog still being cleared

24.01.19: The Scottish health minister has told MSPs the collapse of the clinical waste firm behind the body part stockpiling scandal put Scotland’s health service at risk. In a statement to parliament, Jeane Freeman said that the bags of clini...

NHS wins legal battle over largest ever medicines procurement for hepatitis C drug

21.01.19: NHS England (NHSE) has seen off a legal challenge to its largest ever medicines procurement from an American pharmaceutical firm after the High Court backed the health service’s procurement process for a ground-breaking hepatitis C treatme...

Substantial deficits across NHS ‘do not paint a picture of sustainability’ and threaten long-term plan, warns spending watchdog

18.01.19: The NHS is not financially sustainable and substantial deficits at NHS bodies, year-on-year increases in waiting lists and waiting times, and staffing shortages are threatening the government’s £20bn long-term plan, the National Audi...