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...
Equipment funding in the NHS is an urgent and ongoing requirement, but lacks a coherent strategy. What funding methods are available to stop equipment becoming technologically obsolete, unaffordable...
The NHS is failing to recover enough money from overseas patients because its current systems are “chaotic”, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.
The public should avoid “inappropriate” visits to A&E in order to help the NHS meet its four-hour waiting time target, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt reiterated at a conference...
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to tackle the “hidden injustice” of mental illness, particularly among young people, by providing more training for teachers and companies in...
In 2016, Brexit and the NHS must have individually generated more column inches than anything else. But are enough people actually talking about Brexit and the NHS?
Pressures in the NHS have become so severe that an extra five hospitals worth of beds were needed to fully meet demand last winter, according to the Nuffield Trust.
Poor patient flow through the NHS wastes time and money, can hurt patients, and is deeply frustrating for people working in health and care, according to a report from the Health Foundation and the...
Health reform plans being put together across England should be halted in order to allow for greater consultation on the planned changes, according to the trade union Unison.
Finance chiefs in charge of implementing NHS sustainability and transformation plans are struggling with a “club versus country” dichotomy, according to the Healthcare Financial...
Local authorities are bound by law to balance the books. If NHS trusts were charged with the same expectation, dependency on government handouts could be eliminated
The gap between demands on the NHS and the finances to pay for it is widening. Can getting financial and clinical staff to think as a team help to bridge it?
NHS providers recorded a deficit of £648m in the first six months of the financial year, almost £1bn lower than in the same period last year, according to figures from NHS Improvement.