CIPFA has launched a new guide to the implementation of reforms to social care provision in Scotland that are designed to lead to greater personalisation of support.
CIPFA members need to innovate in order to face up to unprecedented economic and policy challenges, incoming president John Matheson told the annual conference.
English counties are today calling for the devolution of health and social care systems, warning that centralised NHS structures are causing barriers between services.
A deal to devolve £6bn of NHS funding to Greater Manchester’s combined authority has been sealed, with the groundbreaking pact set to devolve all health spending in an effort to improve...
Changes made to the Better Care Fund, which allowed some pooled money to be used to provide NHS services, nearly led councils to walk away from the scheme, it has been revealed.
The Greater Manchester combined authority is to be given complete control over all health spending in the city region in a groundbreaking devolution deal to be announced later this week.
Increasing demand and funding pressures in the NHS have led to foundation trust hospitals running a cumulative deficit five times higher than forecast in the financial year to date.
The UK’s next government faces ‘further NHS crises’ unless action is taken to review the funding and integration of health and social care, MPs, health experts and practitioners have said.
Public Health England now distributes the £2.8bn grant to councils as they work to improve the health of the people. Everything from planning to parks, and education to employment, can play a role.
David Cameron has said a future Conservative government would consider cutting benefits for people with conditions such as drug and alcohol addiction or obesity if they do not agree to treatment.
Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
The coalition government’s controversial reforms to the NHS were ‘damaging’ as they distracted the service from tackling growing demand pressures and dealing with an unprecedented funding squeeze,...
Government and councils have been urged to consider how expansion of payment-by-results systems to pay for public services can work for vulnerable people with multiple needs.
Satisfaction levels with the NHS in Wales fell last year, according to a National Survey for Wales. Despite this, more than nine out of ten people polled were satisfied with care provided by both GPs...
The Department of Health has failed to meet its target to move people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour out of hospitals, according to a report from the National Audit Office.
Proposed changes to the NHS national tariff system have been vetoed by hospitals and other providers and will now be delayed, health service regulator Monitor has announced.
Health and social care integration must eventually be expanded to cover all public spending for these services, rather than just applying to the £5.3bn pooled in the Better Care Fund, former health...
Public support for the NHS increased last year, with two-thirds of people saying they were very or quite satisfied with the way the service is run, despite demand reaching record levels.