Inaccuracies in the way hospitals code the activities they perform to bill primary care trusts 'undermines' the payment by results regime, the Audit Commission has warned.
As local authorities square up to the housing and care demands of older people, new public-private partnerships are emerging to enable housing associations to meet their needs. Melinda Phillips...
Ed Balls, the economic secretary to the Treasury, has challenged other European countries to follow the UK's lead and set up robust accounting procedures for the spending of European Union funds.
A patient survey that will decide whether GP practices receive a bonus of up to £8,000 is biased and potentially pejorative, the British Medical Association said this week.
What links climate change, transport, planning and health? Answer: they are some of the issues that Chancellor Gordon Brown has outsourced to expert, independent review.
The transfer of hospital services into the community moved a step further this week as the government told primary care trusts to develop local markets with a range of providers.
NHS budget cuts, tight eligibility criteria and foot-dragging on personalised services have created 'pockets of poor performance' in adult social care, England's inspectorate has found.
NHS managers feel like they've been jumping through hoops and juggling priorities for ever. Now the health secretary is about to launch a major new challenge, in the form of a revamped payment by...
The government cannot guarantee that sensitive patient data will be protected once it is e-mailed out of the UK, the director general of NHS IT has told Public Finance .
Tolerance for diverse ethnic and religious traditions has long been part of Britain's multicultural society, writes Ann Rossiter. But community cohesion is being seriously undermined and the causes...
Wendy Alexander, who resigned from Jack McConnell's Cabinet four years ago, has returned to Labour's front line as convener of Holyrood's powerful finance committee.
The chief executive of the NHS in Wales has called for an end to deficits in the principality's health boards and trusts and challenged finance professionals to exert greater influence and leadership.
The chief executive of the NHS has admitted that the Department of Health did not keep a close enough eye on hospital spending as they rushed to meet targets by 'overshooting' required staffing...
Health and education took a back seat in the Queen's Speech, but the absence of a Bill merging the health and social care inspectorates drew confused responses.
Experts have predicted another tough financial year for the NHS in England after the Department of Health published the payment by results tariff increases for 2007/08.
Department of Health plans to limit the demand for hospital care by elderly people by providing better preventative community care will not work, the results of a pilot study suggest.
Far from being on its way out, the Private Finance Initiative has never been in ruder health. As well as strengthening its role in health and education, it is elbowing its way into new areas such as...
Local authorities, central government and parents must broaden their sights in the fight against antisocial behaviour and focus on prevention as well as punishment, Whitehall's 'respect' czar...
