NHS finance directors are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the quality of patient care, according to the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
The King’s Fund has called on NHS organisations to do more to develop collaborative relationships with patients and communities as outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View.
The NHS needs to chart a tough course back to balance. But a new approach is needed, one that stresses support and not blame for failing to meet the impossible
Britain’s most senior trade union leader is warning there will be less money available to fund the NHS if the UK votes to leave the European Union next week.
NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
The government’s ambition to provide a seven-day NHS presents a serious risk to public money as flawed workforce planning leaves the cost of the policy virtually unknown, the Public Accounts...
Talks intended to end the dispute over a new contract for junior doctors are to resume today after the British Medical Association agreed to re-enter negotiations.
The Department of Health has agreed to restart contract talks with junior doctors as part of a five-day pause in implementation of the new contract terms being brokered by Academy of Medical Royal...
NHS Improvement has called on hospital finance chiefs to do more to help “get a grip” on agency spending as part of efforts to improve the financial sustainability of the health service.
There is barely an area of health services provision entirely untouched by EU law, but it is necessary to look behind the generalisations to get to the details.
Jeremy Hunt has written to the British Medical Association urging them to call off the junior doctors strike set for tomorrow that will see them refuse to provide emergency treatment for the first...
The homes we live in can have a profound impact on our health and, by extension, on the finances of the NHS. Housing associations and care providers are being brought together to consider...
What matters most to the NHS? That it gets its finances in order or that it hits performance targets? The shifting policy on fines shows system leaders can’t make up their minds
