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.
Three NHS leaders have been appointed to drive forward aspects of the Five Year Forward View, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens announced today.
The chief executive of NHS England has said the service should “call time” on the foundation trust pipeline, saying “we are frankly kidding ourselves” in believing trusts could ever meet the...
The number of national bodies involved in assessing the performance of the NHS is resulting in “duplication and unnecessary complexity”, the King’s Fund has warned.
Higher-than-expected staff costs have led to NHS providers running a deficit of £930m in the first three months of 2015/16, £163m more than forecast, figures released by watchdogs have...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has insisted that the government has no plans to cut the overall pay bill for junior doctors under the terms of a new contract he is looking to negotiate with the British...
There needs to be a cultural shift in how the NHS is run in order to ensure it is focused on patients, health secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Conservative conference.
Scotland’s health boards may be diverting money from important clinical priorities in order to avoid marginal shortfalls in Scottish Government performance targets, according to a report...
Much of the £22bn efficiency savings projected in the NHS Five Year Forward View is expected to come from the successful integration of health and social care services, a senior NHS figure has...
Around £2bn has been spent on 12 hospital mergers in the last five years, a report by the King’s Fund has found, but there is growing evidence that the amalgamations do not lead to the intended...
Poor communication, substandard treatment and diagnostic errors remain the top three reasons for hospital complaints investigated by the health services ombudsman in 2014/15.
The British Medical Association has said it will return to negotiations with NHS England over a new contract for hospital consultants intended to reflect moves to seven-day working across the health...
The Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill is moving quickly through parliament, but its implications for the NHS remain unclear. These are some of the key issues that need to be considered.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has set a target for all patients to able to access their GP records online within a year as part of a further expansion of the use of technology in the NHS.
