The government’s plans for public spending cuts over the next five years are beginning to look ‘close to inconceivable’, with further tax rises or benefits cuts likely, the Institute for Fiscal...
A coalition of medical royal colleges has urged the government to prioritise improving patient care outside office hours after finding that some care provided at weekends was ‘unacceptable’.
The English NHS could face a £54bn funding gap in 2021/22 if it fails to meet its efficiency targets and government spending remains constrained, the Nuffield Trust has warned.
Auditors have criticised Peterborough & Stamford NHS Foundation Trust for its 2007 decision to proceed with a Private Finance Initiative hospital it could not afford.
Regulators have intervened at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following concerns over waiting times and poor financial performance.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has published details of the NHS Commissioning Board, which takes on responsibility for the health service from next April.
The first NHS trust to be taken over by a private company will need to make ‘unprecedented’ savings in the next ten years to meet its target to become debt free, the National Audit Office warned...
Special measures have been introduced at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust after an outbreak of psuedomonas killed three premature babies at the city’s Royal Maternity Hospital
Health service watchdog Monitor has today been empowered to appoint new managers to run hospitals that get into financial difficulty in order to ensure services for patients are protected.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England have submitted their final reports, urging the government to approve their proposals for the next stage.
The struggling South London Healthcare NHS Trust should be dissolved and other organisations given responsibility for the services it supplies, the special administrator has recommended.
A member of the government’s Mutuals Taskforce has said some Whitehall departments need to do more to back employee-owned firms that could provide public services.
The first female general secretary of the TUC will have her work cut out dealing with public sector disputes and the union brothers. But don’t expect Frances O’Grady to start tub-thumping any time...
The English NHS spent more than £3bn compensating women and children for injuries incurred during childbirth in the past decade, the NHS Litigation Authority revealed today.
