Health care providers will need extra help if they are to set themselves up as social enterprises and realise the government's ambitions for the sector, a think-tank said today.
Health and social care transport in Scotland is badly co-ordinated and monitored, leading to a waste of money and poor services, Audit Scotland says in a report published today.
Although the previous government's Total Place scheme looks set to continue, albeit in a watered-down form, the route ahead is a challenging one. Lucy Phillips examines the obstacles that are...
Upper-tier councils in England will take over responsibility for providing access to sexual health services, the national child measurement programme and the NHS's health check assessments, ministers...
NHS trusts are doubtful about meeting their productivity targets for 2011/12, making cuts to services more likely, according to a King’s Fund survey published today.
The government has published its delayed plans to open up public services to new providers, with Prime Minister David Cameron saying that the government will 'bring an end to the "top-down, get what...
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that the Department of Health will provide £1m to cover the start-up costs of council-based health and wellbeing boards
The government has accepted the recommendations of the consultation into its controversial NHS reforms, stating that there will be 'evolution, not revolution' in the health service.
An independent review of the government's planned shake-up of the NHS has today recommended a series of radical changes, including 'significantly diluting' the proposed role of regulator Monitor.
A single bar code system is to be introduced for procurement across the NHS in an attempt to make millions of pounds worth of savings, the government announced today.
