The National Audit Office has found ‘weaknesses’ in the contract with the private firm responsible for assessing people’s medical fitness for work, including inadequate penalties for ‘...
The Department of Health has formally placed the troubled South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration by appointing a special administrator to run it.
A decision on how long-term care is funded in England will not be taken until the next Spending Review, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley confirmed today.
People might have to pay for some NHS services once the health and social care systems are integrated, the deputy director of the Reform think-tank told CIPFA conference delegates
The plan to put a struggling London NHS trust into administration underlines the need for hospitals to be financially sustainable in the future, the chief executive of the NHS in England said today
Many local authority services are ‘obvious candidates’ for being taken over by employee-owned firms, the government taskforce on public service mutuals said today.
A ‘major cultural shift’ is needed to tackle the causes of poor treatment of elderly people in English care homes and hospitals, the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care for Older People said...
Local authorities will be given extra cash for health improvements in their area when they take over responsibility for public health next year, the Department of Health announced yesterday.
England’s adult social care budget will have been reduced by almost £2bn over the two years to March 2013, according to a survey by the Association of Directors of Social Services.
UK public spending must start addressing the future impact of the ageing population to avoid ‘an unsustainable squeeze’ on the finances, the government was told today.
