Children’s mental health services in Wales have failed to improve sufficiently despite development funding and the introduction of staff in vital areas, a joint inspection has found
The speed at which patients are treated by their local accident and emergency department varies widely across the country, according to a report by the NHS Information Centre
Payment by results was meant to give the NHS financial stability and encourage hospitals to improve their productivity. But how well can a tariff system designed for a period of growth work in a...
The NHS is succeeding in doing more for less but is making little progress in moving treatment out of hospitals and closer to patients’ homes, the Audit Commission has said
The NHS has tripled the number of elective surgery procedures it buys from private hospitals in just one year, figures from industry analysts have revealed
Health and social care services are suffering because councils and NHS bodies are failing to pool resources effectively, the local government watchdog has said
NHS leaders have warned that the government might seek to squeeze health service spending by locking down the treatments price tariff for five years and clawing back surpluses
The main parties’ health spokesmen took centre stage during the conference season. But as we head towards an election, they will need to spell out how to maintain quality while making necessary...
Forget the bonfire of the quangos, it’s managers and back-office staff who are in politicians’
line of fire now. But can layers of ‘bureaucrats’ really be taken out without harming services
on the...
The streamlined National Health Service in Wales faces an ‘enormous and complicated’ task in meeting expectations at a time of reduced public spending, the Welsh NHS Confederation has said
Improved financial management in the NHS has left it well placed to tackle looming economic challenges, the new care watchdog has said in its first major assessment of the health service’s performance
Mental health services across Wales continue to be inconsistent and could remain a low priority in the reorganised health service, Assembly Members have warned
Whatever happened to that brave new political dawn? Things really did get better but, as New Labour gathers for its last conference before the election, the public couldn’t be less grateful. Demos’s...
