Out-of-hours GP services are not achieving value for money across the country, auditors have warned, with around a quarter of people unaware the services exist, leading to extra pressure on accident...
Around one-fifth of NHS foundation trust hospitals have still to fully comply with Treasury rules restricting the use of off-payroll contractors, Monitor figures have revealed.
Changes to the government’s flagship Better Care Fund, which could see funding diverted to hospitals, are needed to ensure the scheme is effective, health minister Dr Dan Poulter has said.
NHS chief executive Simon Stevens today set out plans for the health service and councils to work together to give people with high care needs greater control over their treatment as part of a ‘big...
The Department of Health has confirmed that it will legislate to ensure fundamental standards of care are being followed by all health and social care providers.
Ministers have altered the rules governing the flagship Better Care Fund to allow it to support hospital services if local integration plans fail to reduce admissions.
The Public Accounts Committee has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Monitor as the regulator of foundation trusts after warning that the number of hospitals getting in financial difficulty was...
The coalition’s NHS reforms have a created a ‘bizarre market culture’, while the drive for efficiency savings has destabilised services, the head of the British Medical Association has warned.
Public service inspectorates are seeking views on how they can work together to assess what local agencies are doing to help children and young people.
A majority of NHS finance directors do not expect the quality of care across the health service to suffer despite the ongoing budget squeeze, a poll has found.
A former health advisor to Tony Blair has warned that the NHS faces a dual crisis of affordability and quality, and must remove barriers to structural reform to improve provision over the next decade.
Comptroller and auditor general Amyas Morse received a knighthood in this year’s Birthday Honours, leading a distinguished list of public servants who were recognised.
NHS organisations have been issued with guidance on how to link pay to performance in a bid to ensure salary increases coupled to progression result in improved care.
Plans to limit pay-offs to senior public service managers and moves to increase the amount of public sector land available for development were among the measures confirmed in today’s Queen’s Speech.
Trade union Unite has said it has ‘a strong mandate’ from its NHS members to reject the government’s pay offer for health service workers, a move that could lead to industrial action.
Government plans to integrate public services and spending mean it is vital that reforms are also made to the regime for dealing with complaints about poor provision, the Whitehall ombudsman has said.
Involving users in public service delivery could unlock billions of pounds in savings, a report by the government’s reviewer of public service choice has concluded.
Clinical commissioning groups in the NHS have today said they must be given a greater role in the commissioning of primary care if there is to be a ‘transformation’ of local health services
NHS trusts in England have been issued with guidance on how to publish monthly data on ward-level nursing and care staff numbers as part of plans to increase transparency.
CIPFA has joined forces with the Healthcare Financial Managers Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to discuss what their members can do to progress the integration...