Poor diabetes services in England are contributing to thousands of preventable deaths and increasing the costs to the NHS, according to the National Audit Office.
The government’s plan to shift health care from hospitals to communities is under-funded and under-staffed, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.
With major demographic and other pressures on the NHS, the focus for health services is shifting from acute hospital care to prevention in the community
The Public Accounts Committee today called for an end to the routine use of the Private Finance Initiative to pay for public infrastructure, saying some of the private sector profits were ‘difficult...
Unison’s health service members have narrowly rejected proposed changes to NHS pensions, but the low turnout in the ballot means no industrial action will result.
The abolition of the Audit Commission will eventually lead to councils appointing their own auditors. Richard Johnstone looks at the lessons for audit from foundation trusts and academy schools
Following a long and painful battle, the Health and Social Care Act finally made it on to the statute book. But after all that legislative surgery, the prognosis remains unfavourable for the NHS
The largest public sector trade union has warned the government that its members will ‘not sit back’ and allow the national pay bargaining system for the NHS to be broken up.
Private Finance Initiative contracts are under renewed fire in Scotland after the consortium that services Edinburgh’s biggest NHS hospital cut power supplies, forcing surgeons to complete an...
Better integration of mental and physical health care for people with long-term conditions could save the health service money, according to the NHS Confederation.
Primary care trusts could be overpaying millions of pounds for some hospital treatments due to differing definitions of what an inpatient is, the Audit Commission has warned today.
Ed Miliband has launched Labour’s campaign for next month’s English local elections by promising that the party’s councils will act as the ‘last line of defence’ against the government’s ‘damaging’...
More than 1,400 adult care staff at The Highland Council have today been transferred to the NHS as part of Scottish Government plans to integrate social and health care provision.
The Department of Health has settled its dispute with a major IT contractor, paving the way for a more localised approach to NHS technology in England, the health secretary has announced.
The Audit Commission today announced the firms that will take over its in-house audit work from 2012/13, with Grant Thornton winning the largest number of contracts.
The Health and Social Care Bill is meant to help clinicians provide patients with better integrated local care services. But a growing chorus of critics think it will have the opposite effect. Who’s...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is pushing for further revisions to the Health and Social Care Bill to limit competition and the role of the private sector in the NHS.
