The government’s reforms to public sector pensions will reduce the average value of an individual’s scheme by more than a third, an independent assessment by the Pensions Policy Institute has...
There is a risk of ‘massive industrial unrest’ in the NHS over the next year if the current pay freeze for staff is not ended, trade union Unison said today.
The government plans to cap individual social care costs as soon it can ensure there is a ‘sustainable‘ plan for care funding in place, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed today.
Health care regulators have taken action over Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, including appointing an interim chair and chief executive, as concerns grow over its performance and...
Many employees in local government and the NHS could be being paid in a way that can lead to tax avoidance, the Public Accounts Committee warned today.
Labour would create a ‘one budget’ health and social care system to ensure better integration between the different types of care, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said today.
Mergers of failing NHS hospitals should be halted because this approach only worsens problems, a health adviser to the previous Labour government has said.
Failure to reform adult social care funding could leave the NHS short of cash and have a ‘severe impact’ on the quality of patient care, the NHS Confederation warned today.
Foundation trusts should no longer be regarded as an ‘elite band of premier hospitals’ and more could get into financial difficulty, the head of the regulator Monitor said yesterday.
Foundation trust regulator Monitor today announced a review into the troubled Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, which could lead to the trust being placed into administration.
The Royal College of Nurses has warned that moves to introduce regional pay in the NHS would ‘drain staff away’ from low pay areas and hit patient care.
Every junior minister in the Department for Communities and Local Government has changed as Prime Minister David Cameron completes his reshuffle of the government.
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston
The coalition partners don’t agree on much. And the political perils of shrinking the state mean that small is no longer quite so beautiful, argues Philip Johnston
