GPs and health professionals must do more to spot potential child abuse in the wake of the Baby Peter case, two government ministers have told a Commons committee
A £270m Private Finance Initiative hospital for Enniskillen in Northern Ireland has been signed off following months of difficulties in getting funding finalised
The chair of the new Care Quality Commission has promised the health and social care watchdog will be a ‘modern regulator’, conscious of the burden that regulation can place on providers
Health Secretary Alan Johnson has told MPs it is ‘inconceivable’ that the NHS will face real-terms spending cuts from 2011, when the government aims to restore the public finances after...
The Healthcare Commission has praised the treatment of military personnel injured on the front line as ‘exceptional’ and rehabilitation services as ‘excellent’.
The long-term effect of the economic downturn on the public sector will be to focus attention on cost-cutting, warned the Treasury’s director of public services
Doctors, nurses and other clinicians must take greater control of NHS expenditure, an unprecedented joint statement by medical and financial institutions has said
NHS bodies might be given more freedom to choose their own IT systems while waiting for the delayed patient records system, the head of the NHS has said
The Department of Health has again delayed publication of the new NHS treatments tariff after health bodies raised concerns about its operation during testing
NHS bodies need to improve the management of assets such as land, buildings and medical equipment to provide more effective patient care, a study by Audit Scotland has found
An NHS chief has been criticised by politicians after warning that ‘humanity is on a path towards unprecedented catastrophe’ and that the economic crisis could have a devastating effect...
