Integrated care systems should finance and procurement experts earlier in the planning process if they want to maximise their chances of improving services and using their resources...
Funding given to care homes in the first year of the pandemic led to a sharp rise in dividend payments in some large companies while staff in the sector struggled with low pay and high workloads,...
The economy would benefit by billions of pounds per year if healthcare waiting lists are reduced in line with government plans, but doing so will be impossible without investment in the social care...
Government plans to join up healthcare services will fail unless long-term issues over funding disparity between the NHS and social care are fixed, MPs have warned.
As Britain faces a winter of discontent, the NHS is looking more like a war zone, but the current recovery plans are little more than a sticking plaster.
Government plans to increase the number of hospital beds and ambulances to meet the growing care demands being placed on the NHS will depend on a long-term workforce plan, an expert has said.
Manually processing 200,000 invoices each year was a time-consuming and error-prone task for one NHS Foundation Trust – but switching to Advanced Data Automation has already led to massive savings in...
Sustained long-term investment in community and social care is the key to managing NHS pressures, despite new government funding to speed up hospital discharging, experts have warned.
“Unbearable” overlapping crises in the NHS will lead to more hospitals declaring critical incidents, health leaders have warned, as unions call on the government to get a grip on workforce issues.
In the coming days, PF will look back at the stars of one of our highlights of 2022, the Public Finance Awards. We’re starting our New Year celebrations by highlighting the work...
Government ambitions to integrate health and care services will only be achieved through successful local partnerships, working across organisations with a shared vision, writes Dr Eleanor Roy.
Nurses will strike in hospitals across most of the UK on 15 and 20 December after the government turned down more talks, but health secretary Steve Barclay has defended the current pay offer.
Scottish health services will remain free at the point of need despite several senior officials discussing making richer patients pay for treatment, the health secretary has insisted.
Any coming cuts to council budgets in the Autumn Statement will probably lead to false economies that cost more in the long term, just like they have in the past, writes Jim McManus, president of the...
Plans to centralise care in Scotland into a national body could cost “significantly” more than current forecasts, and the devolved government has not yet assessed the full cost of the transition, the...