A range of primary care services fell below acceptable standards because NHS England and Capita failed to understand the risks of outsourcing key back-office support services, the National Audit...
The NHS and adult social care sector should work more closely together – and the latter should be funded in a similar way to the health service, local government figures have heard.
Conditions in the National Health Service have worsened in the last year and staff feel unable to provide the standard of care they have been trained to deliver.
The next chief executive of the Care Quality Commission will inherit an organisation with “persistent weaknesses and looming challenges”, MPs have warned.
Northamptonshire County Council is the only local authority giving the Department of Health and Social Care concern about its ability to deliver statutory care responsibilities, a group of MPs heard.
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’...
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...
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.
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.
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.
A tax on sugary drinks and tougher planning powers for councils to limit the proliferation of fast-food outlets are needed to curb the growing childhood obesity problem, according to MPs.