Hospitals are wasting two hours of operating time a day due to avoidable factors such as late starts, details released from a forthcoming NHS Improvement study have suggested.
The number of nurses and health visitors employed by the NHS has fallen for the first time on a year-on-year basis since April 2013, according to analysis by The King’s Fund.
Trainee GPs will receive a £20,000 ‘golden hello’ if they work in areas struggling to recruit, such as rural and coastal areas, Jeremy Hunt has announced today.
NHS clinical negligence claims are one of the government's biggest liabilities with the health service having set aside £65bn for existing and potential future claims, a think-tank report...
Commitment to future sustainability and transformation funding is crucial if we are to protect progress on clearing provider sector debts, says Tim Connolly of NHS Providers
Brexit will put pressure on the health service at a time when it needs extra funding, a Conservative health minister acknowledged at the party’s conference in Manchester today.
The health service does not have the capacity to maximise the value of its estate, the author of a major review into how the NHS uses its land and property has stated.
The number of hospital beds has been on a downward trajectory for decades. Leo Ewbank of the King’s Fund asks if yet more cuts are sustainable or desirable
The government should double the cap on medical students being trained each year as part of its drive to improve health and social care integration, according to a report from Reform.
Pregnant women are increasingly being turned away from maternity units during weekends and holiday periods because of staff shortages, a report has said.
The government must rein in the spiralling costs of clinical negligence claims, which have quadrupled over the last decade, the National Audit Office has said.
Elderly people and their relatives are reluctant to complain about the quality of care they receive on the NHS, a survey from the Health Service Ombudsman has suggested.
