Senior NHS finance staff should be ‘visible to the front line’ after scandals such as Mid Staffordshire hospital, the Healthcare Financial Management Association has said.
An independent report into behaviour at the Care Quality Commission has found ‘worrying levels of perceived bullying at all levels in the culture’ of the organisation and suggested that the problem...
NHS foundation trusts plan to recruit around 10,000 more clinical staff in 2013/14 following missed targets for accident and emergency treatment, an analysis of hospital’s annual plans by regulator...
Government hopes to sort out problems in accident and emergency departments are pinned on a new set of boards that don’t have the power to make service changes and whose purpose and status is unclear...
There was a surplus of £1.2bn in the NHS in England in the 2012/13 financial year, the National Audit Office has revealed, exactly the same level as the year previously.
Eleven NHS hospital trusts are to be placed in ‘special measures’ after an examination of higher-than-expected mortality rates suggested thousands of patients could have died unnecessarily due to...
Auditors have issued a stark warning that the NHS in Wales will struggle to live within its means and sustain the current level and quality of services, unless there is a significant change in...
Public sector workers are losing pride in their work and trust in their leaders as the government’s austerity programme bites, according to research published by management consultancy Hay Group.
Six Labour-dominated councils are to develop schemes to fully integrate health and social care services as part of the party’s plans to devise a ‘new settlement’ for the NHS, shadow health secretary...
Education and health emerged as relative winners from today's Spending Review, with the chancellor pledging an overhaul of the school funding system and reaffirming the government’s commitment to the...
Local authorities face a further two years of the council tax freeze and a 10% budget cut in the Spending Review for 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
Ministers have been urged to ‘get a grip’ on the use of gagging clauses and severance payments when staff leave jobs in the public sector after auditors found a ‘lack of transparency’ in the deals.
The Care Quality Commission has apologised after an independent review found its checks on maternity services at a Lancashire NHS trust were ‘poor’ and provided the public and other regulators with...
