The government urged for public health services’ commissioning to be more joined-up, as it confirmed the responsibility would remain with local authorities.
Sure Start centres – that have been closing in their hundreds over the past decade - offer major health benefits to disadvantaged children, a think-tank has found.
The use of AI in the NHS has huge potential in saving man-hours and focusing staff on more complex tasks, writes NHS Shared Business Services’ Stephen Sutcliffe.
The government must replace the £1bn that it “catastrophically ripped out” of nursing higher education, the head of the Royal College of Nursing will say.
Delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan is threatened by a “worrying level of disparity” in the financial performance of local health bodies, MPs have warned.
Can an integrated approach to how NHS organisations work – both with each other and local authorities – help it to better manage income and demand for services? Alison Moore reports.