The Scottish government has announced it will provide more than £1bn additional funding over five years to help address health shortages and treatment backlogs created by Covid-19.
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health is facing questions over its accounting treatment of millions of pounds that might otherwise have been redistributed to other departments.
Integrated care systems could be unable to run quality services amid rising demand if NHS bodies and local authorities are not financially sustainable, the National Audit Office has warned.
Proposed public procurement reforms risk restricting local organisations' freedom to decide how best to pursue social value in their area, according to a Parliamentary committee.
Proposals to better integrate health care rely on the NHS being adequately funded in the forthcoming Spending Review, says Amelia Chong, policy advisor for finances and specialised services at...
Public sector unions will consult members on potential industrial action over a 3% pay rise from NHS workers, which has been branded “inadequate and underwhelming”.
The government’s reported proposal to increase national insurance rates to pay for the long-awaited social care reform has been labelled “regressive” and a “rubbish idea” by experts.
Proposed health and social care integration in the Health and Care Bill will not improve people’s lives unless structural issues including underfunding are addressed, according to a...
The government’s Health and Care Bill will give more power for the health secretary to intervene in the running of health services in England and less local oversight, according...
Covid-19 led to UK healthcare spending reaching £269bn in 2020, a fifth higher than the previous year’s figure, according to Office for National Statistics data.
With change afoot for integrated health systems, Jonathan Webb, lead director of finance for West Yorkshire and Harrogate’s partnership, explains the recipe for creating successful working.
The health service and local government both need long-term financial sustainability if the government is to successfully respond to the next national emergency, the National Audit Office has...
Changes proposed under the government’s Health and Social Care White Paper could be “destabilised” without fully funded reforms of the social care sector, MPs have warned.
The government needs to commit £102bn of additional NHS and social care funding over the next decade to improve health equality post-Covid-19, medical experts have said.
Next month’s Queen’s Speech must outline reforms to the social care market as well as a funding solution, says Camille Oung, researcher at health care think tank Nuffield Trust.
Emergency coronavirus contracts totalling £3.7bn raised “red flags” meriting further investigation, according to advocacy group Transparency International.
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked record collaboration between the NHS, social care providers and local government, a senior civil servant said this week.
As many 100 councils in England will see a public health funding freeze year-on-year in 2021-22, according to analysis from the House of Commons Library.
Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.