The health secretary’s plan to maintain the supply of medicine in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit could cost Britain £2bn, a campaign group has warned.
The government must reverse spending cuts to public health funding to tackle rising levels of childhood obesity in England and Wales, council leaders have urged.
Switching to cheaper NHS medicines does not impact the effectiveness of treatment, according to the agency responsible for overseeing health care providers.
NHS providers racked up a deficit of just under £1bn in 2017-18. The King’s Fund’s Richard Murray looks at how much the prime minister’s 3.4% real-terms growth a year- announced in June - will go...
Day-to-day spending on public services will fall by 0.6% in real terms between 2020-21 and 2022-23, delegates at CIPFA’s annual conference heard this morning.
The recently announced £20bn a year NHS funding boost will not be enough to meet the needs of the UK’s growing and changing population, the head of the National Audit Office has told The Guardian.
Northamptonshire council and Public Health England have agreed that £8m will to be reinvested in public health services following a row over misspent grant, the local authority has confirmed....
The outlook for adult social care is still potentially bleak, predicts the IFS’s Polly Simpson, with the sector’s sustainability linked to elements outside government control - the performance of the...
The extra £20bn a year for the NHS is like “pouring water down a sink with no plug in” unless social care also receives a funding boost, council leaders and health groups have...
A leading committee of MPs has pointed to a staggering 1.5 million avoidable A&E admissions as evidence of the government’s underfunding of preventative health care.
A major trade union has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed National Health Service pay offer, which it says merely continues cuts to wages in real terms.
NHS trusts in England ended the last financial year with a deficit of £960m - £464m above the projected deficit of £496m, a regulator’s report out today has shown.
Households in the UK would have to pay up to £2,000 a year extra to keep the NHS afloat as it copes with increased demand, a major report out today has warned.