Six mental health organisations are urging the government to adopt an action plan for its first 100 days in office, including a commitment to agree to fair funding for services in July’s post-...
NHS England is seeking bids from hospitals across England to undertake pilots on how to improve provision through the integration plans set out in its Five Year Forward View plan.
Audit firm 360 Assurance has won CIPFA’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Public Service Audit in recognition of its work supporting NHS clinical commissioning groups.
Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed that an extra £8bn will be put into the NHS over the course of the next Parliament to help support its transformation into a ‘seven-day’ service.
Monitor has launched an investigation into a deterioration in the finances at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a major teaching hospital in South London.
The NHS is facing the biggest financial challenge in its recent history during 2015/16, the King’s Fund has warned, with both mounting deficits and worsening performance.
The Royal College of Nursing has warned the next government must take ‘immediate action’ to increase the number of nurses in the NHS or risk falling standards of care.
Moves to boost the role of the finance profession in the NHS require a new collaboration between accountants and doctors, as well as an improved understanding of costs across the health service.
The NHS in England is projected to have overspent its budget by more than £600m in 2014/15, an analysis by the Health Foundation has found, despite the service receiving an extra £900m in...
The performance of the NHS has deteriorated over the last two years of the coalition government, and there is a real risk patient care will suffer as the health service heads into deficit, an...
The leader of Manchester City Council has said he expects other cities to replicate the landmark agreement for the conurbation’s combined authority to take control of its £6bn NHS budget.
The decision to let private operator Circle run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust was an unsuccessful experiment that has left the taxpayer exposed, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded...
Increasing waiting times now represent a major problem in NHS, a report by the Nuffield Trust has revealed, with a marked deterioration in performance now being observed at even the best-performing...
A majority of NHS providers have backed a revised payment structure for the next financial year that will provide hospitals with more money to cover the cost of emergency admissions.
Public Health England now distributes the £2.8bn grant to councils as they work to improve the health of the people. Everything from planning to parks, and education to employment, can play a role.
Councils have been warned that plans to integrate health and care spending will place additional pressures on ‘ineffective’ local authority scrutiny arrangements.
A senior charity leader has told Public Finance that third sector organisations are ready to help the NHS tackle current pressures in hospitals, but only if the health service is prepared to foot the...
As the dust settles on the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, this is a good time to review what it told us. It contained three big messages: one on money, one on reform, and one on social care.
NHS finance directors have warned that both commissioners and providers in the health service face a worsening financial position in 2014/15 compared to 12 months ago.
Plans to ‘radically’ improve health and social care outcomes and the quality of patient care by 2020 using digital technology has been published by NHS England.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has defended the government’s use of private- and third-sector providers in the NHS as a way to improve the efficiency of the service.
