Clinical negligence claims are on the increase and the cost of settling future claims is expected to cost £65bn, NHS bodies have warned the Ministry of Justice.
Only if the government comes up with a longer-term sustainable funding plan for healthcare will it avoid another winter crisis in the NHS like this year’s, says NHS Providers’...
To keep the NHS sustainable for the long term, the starting point should be a review by a royal commission, taking it outside politics, says Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies.
A parliamentary watchdog has urged the government to improve nurses’ working conditions and access to training in order to prevent an increasing number of staff leaving the profession.
Law firm DAC Beachcroft has warned NHS bodies that PFI contracts involving the failed Carillion firm could be at risk even where it was part of a consortium.
Too many people's care is compromised because they do not know NHS continuing healthcare funding exists and are not helped to navigate “the hugely complicated process” involved, the public accounts...
Money intended to give the NHS a breathing space to achieve financial sustainability has been diverted to cope with rising day-to-day pressures, the National Audit Office has said.
The NHS is losing some 33,000 nurses each year in England, equivalent to one tenth of the total nursing workforce, figures released by NHS Digital to the BBC have shown.
Patient safety is in jeopardy because funding for mental health trusts is lagging behind that for acute care, causing staff shortages, according to the King’s Fund.
The NHS Confederation has commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation to provide objective evidence of what will be needed to finance health and care for the next 15 years.
The ambulance service has changed its performance targets to focus on what actually counts. Max Moullin asks if this can be sustained and what the lessons might be for the wider public sector.
NHS England has told hospitals to defer non-urgent elective care cases until the end of January to free up resources to cope with the current demand that has been overwhelming hospitals.
Doctor, nurse and support staff vacancies within the NHS in England have risen to above 100,000, according to analysis of freedom of information figures obtained by the Labour Party.
The resignation of Lord Bob Kerslake should serve as a warning to government that more resources need to be pumped into the NHS, says CIPFA's Paul Carey-Kent.
Former civil service head and CIPFA member Lord Kerslake has quit as chair of the Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, accusing the regulator NHS Improvement of failing to understand its...
NHS trusts are more prepared than ever for the coming winter but the service is close to full stretch and will be “sorely tested”, the sector has warned.