Police are picking up the pieces of a “broken” mental health system as well as increasingly being the first public service on the scene when people need help, inspectors warned.
In these times of financial constraint, setting up a wholly owned subsidiary should continue to be a tool in the box health trusts can use, argue NHS Providers’ David Williams and Adam Wright....
The 18-week target for elective NHS treatment should be a priority when the health service receives its annual £20.5bn boost, according to 70% of British adults in a poll.
Ambitious plans to merge health and social care in Scotland are being hampered by a lack of leadership within the new integrated authorities, a parliamentary committee has warned.
Local authority public health services in England need an extra £3.2bn a year to reverse the impact of government cuts, a health think-tank has warned.
Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.