Coronavirus disruption has led officials to push back the deadline for NHS accounts, and delay the implementation of an IFRS accounting standard for a year.
The government must get to grips with fraud within the NHS which is costing £1.27bn a year, argues Matthew Jordan-Boyd of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority.
The Centre for Public Scrutiny has started a review into the Royal College of Nursing’s governance and decision-making processes following errors in communicating a pay deal.
Short-term financial fixes for NHS providers in England are failing to ensure the health service is able to keep up with rising demand, according to the spending watchdog.
Two hospitals built by the failed outsourcing giant Carillion will be completed up to five years late, while the total costs of building have nearly doubled, the public spending watchdog has said.
There is no “viable replacement” for the NHS’s four-hour A&E target, a clinicians’ organisation has warned, following suggestions from the health secretary that the standard could be scrapped.
Continued financial strain on the health service means councils and the NHS must work together to ensure every penny of funding is used effectively, writes research assistant at the Reform think-tank...
One in four children in England referred to mental health services last year was rejected while some waited more than two months for treatment, analysis has found.
The worst performance figures for emergency departments since records began show the new government must act quickly to protect the service as winter advances.
The government has announced major capital spending plans for the NHS in recent months, but will they offer a sufficient health boost? Alison Moore reports.
The High Court has rejected a case brought by NHS hospital trusts in which they argued they should be handed business rates relief from councils worth £1.5bn.
Different methods of measuring hospital waiting times are hiding the scale of pressure on NHS emergency departments, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to invest £35bn in health and social care over the next five years via a one pence increase to the basic rate of income tax.
The NHS will cover doctors’ pension tax bills to prevent a winter staffing crisis amid warnings from the sector that workforce shortages are putting patient safety at risk.
