Spending on health has slowed to a rate not seen since the 1950s - but is still “generous” compared to budget cuts in other departments, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government’s £1.27bn Cancer Drugs Fund failed to deliver “meaningful value to patients or society”, a study published in a medical journal has found.
The NHS needs a robust strategic plan to raise the billions of pounds it requires to deliver service transformation, the author of an independent review has said.
A recent Times article saying the NHS could borrow up to £10bn from hedge funds to repair health service infrastructure and provide specialist care at GP surgeries raises interesting questions.
NHS England has today announced the roll-out of a scheme that places clinical pharmacists in GP surgeries with the aiming of freeing up doctors to deal with more complex needs.
The government’s “shocking” lack of long-term planning and underfunding is a danger to the NHS and adult social care, a House of Lords select committee has warned.
Facts and figures from the April edition of Public Finance magazine highlighting findings from CIPFA’s Performance Tracker report and whether we’ve really had enough of experts
Public bickering between government ministers and NHS chiefs is undermining efforts to address the health service’s financial challenges, a committee of MPs has warned today.
Ministers must be prepared to champion controversial proposals for hospital reorganisations in sustainability and transformation plans developed across England, the King’s Fund has said.
NHS providers have amassed a deficit of almost £900m in the first nine months of the current financial year, driven by high demand in a “challenging winter”, official figures have shown.
Public sector staff who move from permanent roles to agency work mainly do so due to concerns over insufficient resources and unmanageable workloads rather than in an effort to increase pay, a review...
