Integration of health and social care funding is a necessity to meet the funding challenge of an ageing population, local government minister Brandon Lewis and care minister Norman Lamb have said...
The personal brand may be more associated with celebrities and business high-fliers than with the public sector. But this need not be the case. Roger Delves examines how public managers can sharpen...
The government has insisted its plan to integrate health and social care spending through the Better Care Fund remains on track to be introduced next year despite concerns about implementation.
Schools minister David Laws has announced the government will spend £2bn on a second phase of its Priority School Building Programme in the six years from 2015.
Significant funds need to be poured into the NHS to avert a looming financial crisis, but must not be used to prop up unsustainable services, the King’s Fund said today.
MPs have called for an external audit of NHS waiting times in England after finding that differences across the country made it difficult to compare the wait faced by patients at different hospitals.
A committee of MPs has called on ministers to bring forward plans to create a single public services watchdog for England as part of reforms to the role of the Parliamentary and Health Service...
Nearly £1.2bn will be spent across the NHS to improve patient care following the public inquiry into failures at the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust, a survey has found. But the poll of NHS hospital...
A financial crisis in the NHS is drawing closer, with one in eight trusts and clinical commissioning groups likely to have overspent their budgets for the year just ended, the King’s Fund said today.
More than 7.5 million people are to benefit from extended GP opening hours after the Department of Health allocated £50m to pilot late night and weekend appointments, it was announced today.
Health services in all four nations of the UK have improved significantly since devolution, a study by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation has found
A Care Quality Commission survey of more that 62,000 hospital inpatients has found the number of people who said they had a positive experience has increased in the last year
Most local authorities have increased the rationing of social care for the over-65s in response to government cuts, leading to significant drops in the number of people receiving home-delivered meals...
Doctors’ leaders have urged Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to reconsider his decision to not offer an annual pay increase to those NHS staff in line for higher wages through job progression
The number of people employed in the public sector fell by 159,000 to 5.5 million in the last three months of 2013 following the reclassification of the Royal Mail after privatisation, the Office for...
Public sector employers will need to increase the amount they pay into occupational pension schemes, as current levels are insufficient to meet the future costs, the Treasury has announced.
Health and social care services have failed to keep pace with dramatic demographic changes and need to be radically remodelled, the King’s Fund said today
Senior doctors should be offered incentive payments to work in understaffed accident and emergency departments, the Public Accounts Committee said today.