Senior doctors should be offered incentive payments to work in understaffed accident and emergency departments, the Public Accounts Committee said today.
The six most senior finance leaders in the NHS are backing a campaign to consolidate and develop financial management across the health service after the government’s restructure
The likelihood of some English councils becoming unviable has been increased by a funding system that favours the wealthiest parts of the country. To avoid a financial crisis, the government must...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust will be dissolved, with its two constituent hospitals to be operated by other providers
The body established by government to improve public health in England has not yet shown it can be effective and needs to do more to establish its independence from the Department of Health, MPs have...
Monitor has been a rigorous and effective regulator for the health service but may struggle to maintain this with more foundation trusts at financial risk, the National Audit Office said today.
Foundation trust hospitals have fallen behind on their efficiency savings target in the current financial year, and an increasing number of trusts are running a financial deficit, a report by Monitor...
GP practices must join together to form primary care networks if attempts to shift health services away from hospitals and into the community are to succeed, according to the King’s Fund
The number of people employed in some public services will fall by as much as 40% as a result of the government’s deficit reduction plan, an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has revealed.
Big Lottery Fund grants totalling £112m are to be distributed to charities across England as part of a scheme to better co-ordinate services for people leading chaotic lives.
Local health and wellbeing boards should be given responsibility to commission joined-up health and care services, the health select committee has recommended
One year on from the Francis report on the Mid Staffs scandal, the NHS faces a huge challenge. How to reconcile the radical quality improvements it calls for with the severe financial pressures...
Financial pressures are making it difficult for hospitals to implement many of the recommendations set out by the Francis inquiry into care failings, according to Nuffield Trust research.
Planned public spending cuts are less than half complete and government pledges made for the next parliament imply that even greater reductions will be needed beyond 2015, the Institute for Fiscal...
There is a shortfall of 2,300 midwives in England and the funding available to provide maternity services across the country may not be sufficient to provide high-quality and safe care, MPs have...
Councils have been urged to back plans to create 39 local investment funds across England that could boost local third sector providers of public services.
Serious failings in the use of confidentiality clauses in public sector severence deals means they have been used to cover up failure and pay off whistleblowers, the Public Accounts Committee said...
Financial pressures faced in the NHS mean it is ‘an increasing challenge’ to meet the 18-week waiting time target for treatment across England, auditors have warned today
Scotland’s health secretary, Alex Neil, has ordered health boards to cut back on purchases of care from the private sector, even though levels are already far below those in England.
Monitor is to regulate independent providers of NHS-funded care services for the first time in order to protect patients from financial failures, following the collapse of the Southern Cross care...