The Treasury has launched an initiative to cut costs in projects built using the controversial Private Finance Initiative by urging private operators of hospitals and schools to agree to a code of...
Public sector employment in the UK continues to decline, falling by 22,000 to 5.7 million over the first three months of the year, official figures show.
Monitor is to begin its first investigation into a possible breach of NHS purchasing rules after receiving a complaint from a privately run specialist radiosurgery centre.
The NHS faces a 'vicious spiral' of poorly planned services and unsustainable demand for care unless changes are made to local health care provision and some hospitals close, a coalition of managers...
The majority of NHS finance directors think the health service will fail to meet its target of £20bn 'efficiency savings' by 2015, according to a King’s Fund survey.
Little progress has been made on integrating health and social care services in England, which risks making services financially unsustainable in the future, senior NHS managers have warned.
The government has confirmed that Whitehall cuts agreed yesterday will not affect council funding, which is still being negotiated by the various departments.
Almost three-quarters of NHS staff do not believe that quality of care is given enough priority in the health service, according to a survey by the King’s Fund.
The growing ‘fire-storm’ over hospital accident and emergency admissions is damaging GP morale and could result in them focusing less on their local commissioning role, NHS Clinical Commissioners has...
Hospitals are to share £260m of additional funding to speed up the move to electronic patient records and prescriptions, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
The way the English NHS pays hospitals for accident & emergency admissions is ‘broken’ and could lead to care failures within six months, foundation trusts warned today.
Trade union Unison has urged the government to halt cuts to public spending after research revealed a ‘devastating’ impact on councils and hospitals throughout the country.
Councils' adult care budgets have been slashed by £2.7bn – a fifth of their funding – over the past three years, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said today.
The June Spending Review is going to slice Whitehall’s funding cake so thinly that departments will be left fighting over the crumbs. So how are public services meant to cope, asks Tony Travers
The amount of time nurses spend on paperwork has more than doubled in the past five years and is preventing them from caring for patients, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
