Nearly half of the £3.8bn funding increase for the NHS next year is being ringfenced in a sustainability and transformation fund intended to improve the financial health of the service.
The financial health of NHS hospital trusts has “significantly declined” in the last year and is expected to worsen further to the end of 2015/16, the National Audit Office warned today.
Ongoing uncertainty over social care funding has the potential to derail efforts to get the NHS’s finances back into balance, the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s policy director has...
The next financial year is a “firebreak” year for the NHS in which it must get itself back into balance, the service’s finance managers have been told.
The NHS ombudsman has found that poor complaint handling in the health service mean that problems with care are not being uncovered in hospital investigations into avoidable harm or death.
The junior doctors’ strike, set to go ahead in England today, has been called off after the British Medical Association said agreement had been reached to resume negotiations over contract...
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
There is growing dissatisfaction with access to GP surgeries, while age, ethnicity and where a patient lives can bear heavily on their ability to get an appointment, the National Audit Office has...
The Future-Focused Finance initiative has piloted a toolkit to help clinical and financial teams in the NHS build stronger working relationships and identify shared priorities
NHS providers recorded a deficit of £1.6bn in the first six months of the financial year, £358m worse than planned, due to significant challenges across the service, health watchdogs said...
Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action next month in the dispute over changes to pay arrangements and working hours.
NHS finance chiefs have warned that the £8bn funding boost promised for the health service by Prime Minister David Cameron will not be enough to deliver the flagship Five Year Forward View...
Junior doctors in England are to be balloted on strike action after the British Medical Association said a pay offer by health secretary Jeremy Hunt intended to end the dispute over a new contract...
Waiting times in the NHS are continuing to deteriorate and are unlikely to improve amid financial pressures in the health service, an analysis by the Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation has...
Cuts to social care budgets in local government are putting extra pressure on NHS services, according to over 80% of heath service finance directors who responded to a King’s Fund poll.
Everyone in healthcare needs to understand finance, and finance staff need to know about clinical issues. The NHS Future-Focused Finance programme is bringing them together
Shared services can greatly improve efficiency and encourage a culture of collaboration to improve NHS services, says Stephen Sutcliffe, the new finance and accounting director of NHS Shared Business...
NHS England has recruited Dr Donald Berwick, a former senior health official under Barack Obama in the United States, to help develop new models of care across the country.