Helping NHS providers improve productivity in elective care

"Improving productivity does not mean simple cost cutting: it means increasing the efficiency of elective care while at the same time improving or maintaining its quality."

Helping NHS providers improve productivity in elective care
Monitor
October 2015

Read more here.

Foundation trust and NHS trust mergers 2010 to 2015

"Our review paints a picture of a highly centralised and politicised system where providers pursue mergers at the instigation of national bodies, often in pursuit of foundation trust status or in response to financial or clinical failure. Hard-pressed NHS leaders appear to be betting the farm on mergers for severely challenged providers, typically after a range of alternative strategies have been attempted.

This is despite the paucity of evidence that mergers offer lasting solutions for challenged hospitals. Our review has highlighted the length of time, costs and risks involved in mergers. Others have shown that mergers are unlikely to deliver the intended benefits."

Foundation trust and NHS trust mergers 2010 to 2015
B Collins
The King's Fund
September 2015

Read more here.

A guide to special measures

"This guide, developed jointly by CQC, Monitor and NHS TDA, describes how the special measures programme works for NHS trusts and foundation trusts. It explains:

• why trusts are placed in special measures
• what will happen to trusts during special measures
• the roles and responsibilities of key organisations involved
• when and how trusts will exit special measures."

A guide to special measures
Monitor, Care Quality Commission, Trust Development Authority
Updated February 2015

Read more here.

2012-13 update on indicators of financial sustainability in the NHS

"This update focuses on the financial sustainability of the NHS trusts and foundation trusts that provide community, secondary and tertiary health services, and on the primary care trusts that commissioned those services up to the end of 2012-13."

2012-13 update on indicators of financial sustainability in the NHS
National Audit Office, Department of Health
July 2013

Read more here.

Anatomy of health spending 2011/12

"This report presents findings of new analysis of the financial performance of the NHS in England and the Department of Health between 2003/04 and 2011/12. It examines recent changes in the labour productivity of acute hospitals (both NHS and foundation trusts), identifies the factors associated with variations in labour productivity and develops a new measure of labour productivity."

The anatomy of health spending 2011/12
NM Jones, A Charlesworth
Nuffield Trust
March 2013

Read more here.

Securing the future financial sustainability of the NHS

"This report looks at the financial sustainability of NHS commissioners, and the NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts that provide community, secondary and tertiary health care services."


Securing the future financial sustainability of the NHS
National Audit Office, Department of Health
July 2012


Read more here.