The government is to impose new contract terms on junior doctors after concluding it would not be able to reach agreement with the British Medical Association.
Public satisfaction with the NHS is falling and dissatisfaction levels saw the largest single-year increase since 1983 in 2015, according to data published today by the King’s Fund.
The final report from an NHS efficiency review has today confirmed £5bn could be saved if hospitals adopted standard procedures and has set out how a “model hospital” would achieve...
Junior doctors are set to go ahead with industrial action next week after talks to end a contractual dispute with the Department of Health ended without a deal.
Health service watchdog Monitor has announced it is to tighten its processes for awarding hospitals foundation trust status after a review called on it to strengthen its approach, including to...
The Care Quality Commission’s new five-year strategy creates an opportunity to shift the watchdog’s focus from individual organisations and towards health and care services in a local area, the NHS...
Many finance chiefs have signed the Finance Director Declaration to show their commitment to NHS Future-Focused Finance. How has it affected their work and teams?
Industrial action by junior doctors planned for next week has been suspended following “early progress” in talks with government over new contract terms, the British Medical Association...
Talks to avert further strikes by junior doctors are set to take place tomorrow following the end of a day of action where only emergency care was provided.
Government ministers and NHS England have today pledged a “revolution” in mental health treatment in England, with a funding boost of nearly £1bn set to be invested in improvements both in hospitals...
Two former health secretaries and the former Liberal Democrat care minister Norman Lamb have issued a joint call for a cross-party commission into the health and social care crisis.
Junior doctors in England are to take strike action starting next Tuesday after talks with NHS Employers to resolve a dispute over new contractual terms broke down.
Constraints on consultancy spending in the NHS saved £42m in the third quarter of 2015 and restrictions on agency staff could reduce costs by £160m by the end of the financial year, NHS...
All small hospitals in England are set to run a deficit in 2015/16, the first time that every provider with turnovers of under £200m a year will be in the red, an analysis by EY has found.
Current levels of uncertainty across the NHS are unprecedented. As the dust settles on the Spending Review, the challenge for the finance community is to find a way to meet short-term financial...
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...
