Exclusive: Hundreds of thousands of hours of surgical time are likely being wasted, costing the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds, Public Finance can reveal.
Opportunities to make mental health a key priority in some flagship NHS 'vanguard' schemes are being missed, the King’s Fund and Royal College of Psychiatrists have said.
A feared second wave of cyber attacks did not occur after the NHS was targeted in an international ransomware incident, the health secretary has confirmed.
The NHS is evaluating the full impact of a global cyber-attack that hit on Friday amid fears a number of systems could have been infected over the weekend.
Spending on health has slowed to a rate not seen since the 1950s - but is still “generous” compared to budget cuts in other departments, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government’s £1.27bn Cancer Drugs Fund failed to deliver “meaningful value to patients or society”, a study published in a medical journal has found.
The NHS needs a robust strategic plan to raise the billions of pounds it requires to deliver service transformation, the author of an independent review has said.
A recent Times article saying the NHS could borrow up to £10bn from hedge funds to repair health service infrastructure and provide specialist care at GP surgeries raises interesting questions.
NHS England has today announced the roll-out of a scheme that places clinical pharmacists in GP surgeries with the aiming of freeing up doctors to deal with more complex needs.
The government’s “shocking” lack of long-term planning and underfunding is a danger to the NHS and adult social care, a House of Lords select committee has warned.
Facts and figures from the April edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from CIPFA’s Performance Tracker report and whether we’ve really had enough of experts