The health service in Scotland must tighten its long-term financial planning and change the way it delivers services if it is to cope with impending budget cuts, Audit Scotland said today.
The Welsh government has struck a deal with two opposition parties to reform social care provision and increase school spending, First Minister Carwyn Jones has revealed.
Continuing to ringfence NHS and schools spending is placing ‘the full burden of financial stringency’ on other Whitehall departments and could lead to waste in protected areas, the Treasury select...
Funding for GP services has fallen by £400m in real terms over four years, the Royal College of GPs revealed today. It warned this had left a ‘black hole’ in the finances of many practices
The Care Quality Commission is to be given ‘statutory independence’ from ministers to avoid ‘political interference’ in the watchdog, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
The ‘friends and family test’ used to judge the quality of NHS hospitals is to expanded to other public services, including job centres and further education colleges, Cabinet Office minister Francis...
Public service mutual spin-outs appear to offer staff a greater say in the way their organisation runs, which in turn increases motivation. But not everyone is persuaded
Mental health services must be incorporated in plans for closer integration between NHS and social care provision to ensure best value for money, an inquiry looking at necessary reforms has...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said he would support continuing to ring-fence spending on both the NHS and schools over the five years to the end of the next parliament in 2020.
The number of people working in local government fell by nearly 50,000 in the second quarter of 2013, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics today.
A recruitment drive in the NHS ahead of the coming winter is set to provide a boost to public sector employment in the fourth quarter of this year, a survey of hiring intentions has found.
Welsh Assembly members have criticised the NHS in Wales over the way it uses consultants, saying the job planning process is regarded as little more than a ‘tick-box exercise’.
Nearly one-third of public sector workers are considering returning to work part-time after their retirement due to concerns over how they will be able to cope financially.
The government has been urged to undertake a review of its controversial NHS reforms in 2015 to ensure that local commissioners are having the intended impact on integrating health and social care in...
Steve Field, who led the 2011 review into the government’s controversial NHS reforms, has been appointed the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of general practice
