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...
All Clinical Commissioning Groups in England are to have their budgets protected from cuts in 2014/15, and areas with the greatest healthcare need will receive real-terms increases in funding, NHS...
NHS employers have backed moves to make seven-day working the default in the health service, saying doctors’ terms and conditions too often get in the way of progress.
The public sector employment outlook has deteriorated in the last three months, with employers now unlikely to hire extra staff, a poll by recruiters Manpower has found.
Councils could face bankruptcy if Chancellor George Osborne announces more cuts to local authority funding in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, trade union Unison has warned
Four out of ten NHS trusts did not achieve their planned savings in the 2012/13 financial year creating concerns about their long-term financial resilience, according to research published by Grant...
The Department of Health has said it is concerned by an almost 30% rise in the number of excess deaths recorded last winter but stressed that the NHS is ready for any coming cold weather-related...
Senior NHS managers will be required to pass a ‘fit and proper person’ test, the Department of Health announced today as it published its full response to the Francis report.
Automatic pay rises for older doctors are to be phased out and savings re-invested in general practice under changes to the GP contract, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
The way the NHS in England provides urgent care is to be radically reformed over the next five years, after medical director Sir Bruce Keogh set out plans for the creation of two types of hospital...
Government plans to impose a charge for NHS services to migrants could adversely affect vulnerable people who have been trafficked into the country, MPs have warned
The NHS is to publish a range of new information on the performance of hospital treatments and individual doctors across the country as part of an expanded transparency drive
The Court of Appeal has today upheld a ruling that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt exceeded his powers when he ordered Lewisham hospital to cut or close departments.
Monitor is to conduct an investigation into the challenges faced by small district general hospitals in their efforts to provide high quality and sustainable care.
The NHS in England could recoup up to £500m each year by charging migrants and foreign visitors for using its services, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today.
Eight small firms have been awarded NHS funds to develop innovative products and services for people with mental illnesses and those approaching the end of their lives.
Only people who have lived in an area for at least two years will be able to join a council’s social housing waiting list, according to Department for Communities and Local Government proposals...
The National Health Service in Scotland will be reformed to provide genuine 24-hour, seven-day-a-week services, Health Secretary Alex Neil has told an international conference in Edinburgh
Changes to how health spending is allocated across England are needed as part of efforts to close the £30bn funding gap faced by the NHS over the next eight years, regulator Monitor has said.
