Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones has challenged the findings of a report calling for up to £3m in additional funding to be spent to prevent a major E. coli catastrophe.
The Care Quality Commission is on course to register all NHS trusts in England. But it has been hard work for both the regulator and the trusts, its chief executive tells David Williams
The chief executive of the General Medical Council has called on the government to change the law to enable better oversight of foreign doctors practising in the UK
Billions of pounds’ worth of spending targeted on reducing the health gap between the rich and the poor has led to only patchy improvement across England, the Audit Commission has found.
Changes to the management of NHS waiting lists in Scotland have made the system fairer for patients but more needs to be done to ensure it works effectively, Audit Scotland has found.
A company responsible for running a mental health hospital in Yorkshire has been fined thousands of pounds for breaching care standards in relation to medication
A new Welsh efficiency drive will foster innovation and collaboration in areas where not enough is being done, the minister leading the scheme has told Public Finance
A new Welsh efficiency drive will foster innovation and collaboration in areas where not enough is being done, the minister leading the scheme has told Public Finance
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Improvements in outpatient satisfaction in England, revealed in a study released today, will be sustainable even with the NHS spending squeeze, doctors’ leaders have said
The Staffordshire hospital trust that ‘failed to deliver’ acceptable standards of care should have its foundation status reviewed, an independent inquiry has said.
MPs are calling on the government to stop funding homeopathy, arguing that the treatments are unreliable and have no greater clinical use than placebos
Health minister Mike O’Brien has warned that strategic health authorities will have to ‘justify their existence’, singling the bodies out as a possible target for cuts
Health inequalities among children under five have barely improved in the past decade despite more than £10bn of government investment, research has shown
Stroke care standards have improved and awareness of the condition has been heightened, but progress has not been universal, government auditors said today
Problems at Mid Staffordshire and Basildon foundation trusts caused an awkward year for outgoing Monitor chair Bill Moyes. But standards are rising, he tells David Williams