The government has offered to postpone the planned rise in NHS pension contributions for lower-paid workers, meaning almost half the staff would not pay more next year.
Patients’ experience of the health service plays a major role in the revised performance measures for the NHS, announced by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today.
Reducing NHS spending by up to £20bn by 2014 is a ‘huge’ challenge but will help to ‘breed innovation’ in the health service, according to the president of the Healthcare Financial Management...
The Care Quality Commission has so far failed to achieve value for money in regulating the quality and safety of health and adult social care in England, according to the National Audit Office.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has branded today’s public sector strike ‘inappropriate, untimely and irresponsible’ as thousands of schools closed nationwide and hospitals prioritised urgent...
Whitehall departments have been urged to address 'weaknesses' in how they distribute funding to local bodies, after MPs labelled the systems currently used 'complex and difficult to understand'.
NHS primary care trusts will be banned from placing 'unfair restrictions' on patients’ choice of provider for routine operations, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced today.
Co-operative social enterprise Circle signed a 'groundbreaking' deal last night to become the first private firm to take over the running of all services at an NHS hospital.
Confusion over how ambulance services will be commissioned under the health service reforms could hamper efforts to improve patient care in rural areas, the NHS Confederation warned today.
The government has been urged to clarify the role councils will play in its public health reforms, after MPs today called for more certainty over how the proposals will work in practice.
NHS trusts are failing to buy and use expensive, hi-tech equipment in a way that provides value for money and equal service standards, according to MPs.
The UK coalition's health reforms are tantamount to privatisation and will not be followed in Scotland, Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon told delegates at the Scottish National Party...
NHS patients having operations in dedicated private sector units tend to be medically fitter and to fare better than those being treated in health service hospitals, a study has found.
Minor disputes over health care have led to both a deluge of complaints to the health service ombudsman and patients being unjustifiably removed from doctors' lists, it emerged today.
Professor Malcolm Grant has been named as the preferred chair of the NHS Commissioning Board, which will play a central role in the government’s planned health reforms.
At least 20 NHS trusts seeking to be self-governing by 2014 are not 'financially or clinically viable in their current form', the National Audit Office has warned.
