Health finance professionals should work with their clinical and managerial colleagues to develop accurate costs for the services their organisations offer, Monitor said today.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today set out details of the government’s plans to overhaul inspections of NHS hospitals in England following the ‘disaster’ of failures in care at the Mid Staffordshire...
MPs have criticised the Department of Health’s ‘extraordinary’ decision to approve a Private Finance Initiative hospital in Peterborough in 2007 while another hospital was in financial difficulty...
Any NHS trust board that presides over serious care failings could be suspended, Prime Minister David Cameron announced as he responded to the findings of the public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire...
A focus on cost-cutting led to ‘shocking’ failures in the patient care provided at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the public inquiry into the issue has concluded.
Reforms to the contracts for NHS consultants have brought many of the expected benefits, but hospitals can still improve how they manage senior doctors to improve value for money, the National Audit...
Debt-ridden South London Healthcare NHS Trust is to be broken up after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it continued to pose a risk to patients and place additional financial pressure on the rest of...
Urgent and emergency health services in England will be reviewed as part of plans to offer more seven-day services, the NHS Commissioning Board announced today.
The troubled Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust needs to save more than £50m to be financially viable, but could not do so without compromising services, a report for health regulator Monitor has...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans for the NHS to become paperless by 2018, in a move he said could save billions of pounds a year while also improving services.
Councils in England will share £2.66bn to fund their new public health duties from April, almost 20% more than originally proposed, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
Prime Minister David Cameron has urged all parts of the English health service to adopt ‘friends and family’ tests to expose unacceptable standards of care.
Overweight people could lose their entitlement to some benefits if they do not attend exercise classes, according to a report from a London council today.
Senior NHS managers enjoyed an average pay rise of 2% in the year to September 2012, outweighing that received by doctors, nurses and ambulance staff, according to figures published today.
Former Conservative MP David Prior has been named as the new chair of the Care Quality Commission and will take up the post towards the end of next month.
