Health partnerships in Scotland that aimed to provide more community-based services have not added value for patients in the past decade and must be improved, auditors said today.
The government has today pledged £6m towards Big Society projects in the health service.
The Department of Health Volunteering Fund will be divided between 13 charities over three years. The...
Further delays to the government’s health reforms could detract from the 'urgent business' of saving £20bn from the cost of the NHS, a health think-tank said today.
The government’s controversial NHS plans suffered a further blow today after doctors' leaders refused to back the plans.
The British Medical Association says the proposals in the Health and Social...
The mood music has changed and, since the May 5 elections, the relationship will never be the same again. So, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats locked into a loveless coalition, what does...
The Department of Health has been challenged to clarify how it intends to secure £1.2bn in procurement savings from hospital trusts over which it has no control.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has defended his controversial plans for increased competition in the National Health Service following attacks by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
The plan for a national IT system for the NHS is now in ‘damage limitation mode’ and cannot achieve its main aim of giving every patient an electronic health record, the National Audit Office has...
Talk of shared services is nothing new, but now it is increasingly turning into action as public bodies seek to find savings without harming services. While a few pioneers are making headlines,...
The government needs to give the NHS clear commissioning guidelines to ensure the continuance of a £60m substance misuse prison rehabilitation programme, a leading figure in the sector has said.
The Scottish election campaign enters its final days with party leaders refusing to be drawn on claims that 25,000 public sector workers could lose their jobs and others suffer real-terms pay cuts of...
