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‘Compensation crisis’ making NHS finance worse – NHE
The financial crisis in the NHS is being made worse by an increase in compensation payments, new figures show. In its annual report, the NHS Litigation Authority said that its provisions for hospital clinical negligence claims have increased from £30.9bn to a record £56.4bn.

Devolve all health budgets and create new taxation powers, leaders say – NHE
Similarly to the Greater Manchester model and building on sustainability and transformation plans (STPs), all local areas should request total devolution of their health budgets in order to become increasingly free of central government control, a think tank has argued in a groundbreaking report backed by cross-party leaders

A sustainable future for the NHS
The House of Lords Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS is calling for submissions to its inquiry which will consider whether strategies and planning are sufficiently long-term, and what might usefully be done in practical terms to guarantee the sustainability of the NHS. The Committee will focus its inquiry on five main themes:  resourcing issues; workforce; models of service delivery and integration; prevention and public engagement; and digitisation, big data and informatics. The Committee invites written evidence to be received by Friday 23 September.

English language requirements for public sector workers published – NHS Employers
The Immigration Act 2016 creates a duty for employers to ensure that all public sector staff working in customer-facing roles speak English to an appropriate standard. To support employers to meet their obligations the government has published an early draft of the code of practice.

Manchester single trust depends on ‘no hitches whatsoever’ from NHSI – NHE
Manchester’s plans to join together three of its hospitals in a single trust are the largest and most complex in the history of the NHS, the deputy chief executive of one of the hospitals has said. In June, Manchester city council’s Health and Wellbeing Board approved plans to integrate University Hospital of South Manchester…

The NHS has been left with no financial wriggle room – HSJ
The close accounting scrapes by the Department of Health may be fascinating but what is the longer term picture on spending likely to be, ask Anita Charlesworth and Richard Murray. The 2015-16 Department of Health accounts have rarely made such interesting reading. As a top line, the Department overspent by £207m the total revenue budget set by HM Treasury.

More trust leaders insist regulator was wrong to target pay bills – HSJ
NHS Improvement’s list of trusts which over-spent on pay bill did not take account of key service changes, chief executives say Trusts including Salford Royal and UCLH identified as over-spending on staff Regulator will be asked to publish revised list by Royal Devon FT
More trust leaders have defended their organisations after being targeted by NHS Improvement for over-spending on staff. Three major acute trusts have said the regulator made a mistake and failed to take account of significant service changes they are making in its assessment.