NHS patients who have been waiting the longest for treatment will be offered the opportunity to travel to a different hospital if it means they could be seen sooner, NHS England has announced.
The Care Quality Commission has released its latest annual assessment of health and adult social care in England.
Analysis by the Health Foundation shows that if current trends continue, the waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England could exceed eight million by August 2024, if there is no further strike action, before starting to fall.
The financial element of the CQUIN quality incentive scheme looks set to be paused in 2024/25, under proposals from NHS England.
NHS England remains committed to linking provider payments to quality, but recognises that the current mechanisms need further work.
One trust's patient-level cost based value programme is gaining increasing clinical support
The annual report. This is not usually the finance team’s domain, but it is important that those responsible are fully briefed about the change.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have proposed removing the requirement to sign up to a system collaboration and financial management agreement.
Tough winters are par for the course in the NHS, and another regular feature of the healthcare year emerged.
An HFMA roundtable, supported by NHS Shared Business Services, aimed to identify the components of a finance report.