Prime Minister David Cameron has sought to reassure public sector staff over the pace and scale of reform by attacking the approach taken by previous Conservative governments.
The harsh winter and rising number of serious flu cases will not thwart attempts to make savings in the NHS, the head of the health service has told Public Finance.
NHS bosses have stepped up their efforts to push through a two-year freeze on incremental pay rises for staff in return for a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies
The health service could reduce its costs by taking more account of patients’ experiences in hospital, according to an NHS Confederation report published today.
Councils are to be allocated an extra £162m in the current financial year to spend on social care, as a result of cost-cutting at the Department of Health.
Productivity in the NHS has remained 'virtually static' over the past year, with little progress made towards the service's £20bn savings target, according to the Audit Commission
Local authorities will not have the necessary resources to sustain current social care eligibility levels, the Commons health select committee has warned
A new chair is not the only major change that the foundation trust watchdog is undergoing. In the post-white paper world, it will need to oversee a liberated, market-based health sector
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has defended his decision to ring-fence council public health budgets, denying that the move is at odds with a wider government drive to remove local finance...
The strategy for tackling child poverty should be overhauled, with more funding targeted during the first five years of life, according to a major review published today
Improvements in maternity services have been patchy in the past three years, and better postnatal care standards are needed, the Care Quality Commission has said.
A £400m scheme to reward clinical excellence among doctors is out-dated, unfair, not transparent and needs to be reformed or scrapped, NHS Employers said today.
There is a 'strong case' for the maximum pay in public bodies to be linked to that of the lowest earners, the interim report on public sector pay said today
Plans to hand public health budgets back to local authorities in England were announced today, with ministers promising financial incentives to help councils reduce health inequalities
Health chiefs have come under fire from MPs for failing to negotiate savings in Private Finance Initiative contracts, forcing hospitals to cut frontline staff
Social care services should not have to suffer because of the spending cuts imposed in last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
