The Department of Health cannot measure the impact of its cancer strategy and does not know if it is commissioning cancer services effectively, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
Audit fees for local government, health and community safety bodies will be cut by up to 20% in the 2011/12 financial year, the Audit Commission confirmed today.
Councils and primary care trusts could save money and keep more people independent for longer if they combined health and social care records, a leading health think-tank said today.
NHS trusts need to respond to today's damning findings of the health ombudsman and ensure they have systems to check that every patient receives the best possible care, health service managers have...
A lack of support from senior NHS managers and poor business skills among employees have been identified as major barriers to staff setting up social enterprises to run services independently.
NHS leaders have told MPs that competition on price between public and private health providers would not be safe, and should be introduced only in limited circumstances over a long time period
The funding for health announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review is sufficient to allow planned NHS and social care reforms to take place, the health secretary has said.
Primary care trusts are in the exit lounge as ministers prepare to hand over NHS commissioning powers to GPs. But with many trusts heading for the red – and waiting times and rationing on the rise –...
The head of the NHS has refuted suggestions that the health service tariff - the basis for paying hospitals for treatments - will be brought below average treatment costs
A leading health think-tank has cast doubt on the ability of the new NHS economic regulator to ensure both good services for patients and value for money.
A leading public sector human resources director has called for more help from the government to enable councils to save money through shared services and pooled budgets.
The coalition government’s proposed reforms of the NHS will leave councils ill-equipped to live up to their new public health responsibilities, shadow health secretary John Healey has warned.
Health services are over-reliant on face-to-face contact and need to make much more use of modern communication technologies, the NHS Confederation says.
The coalition government is to publish its hotly anticipated Health and Social Care Bill later today, amid mounting criticism that the reforms it introduces, including putting GPs in control of...
The Department of Health has failed to renegotiate Private Finance Initiative contracts to secure a share of efficiency savings for the public, the Public Accounts Committee has found.
