A committee of MPs has called for a moratorium on fracking saying the risks it poses to public health are still unknown, while the activity simultaneously undermines national climate change targets.
The risk of an NHS crisis is mounting, with problems spreading from accident & emergency departments and starting to affect waiting times, operations and discharges, the King’s Fund warned today.
Jeremy Hunt has warned that strike action planned by NHS trade unions next week could put lives at risk at a time of record demand across the health service.
Cancer treatment outcomes vary significantly across England despite the NHS making improvements to provision since 2010, the National Audit Office has said.
NHS Employers has published proposals to reform health service pay in a bid to tackle the higher costs of providing more services at evenings and weekends.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the next Conservative government would get Britain ‘back to living within its means’ by running a surplus on day-to-day government spending by 2017/18.
The Public Accounts Committee has warned that variations in health funding across the country needed to be tackled to ensure the financial sustainability of the NHS.
Private healthcare operator Circle has said it will pull out of its flagship contract running Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital, citing funding cuts and increased demand on accident and emergency services.
The Department of Health has insisted that the NHS has enough funding to cope with the record levels of demand on accident and emergency services, after figures revealed waiting times have reached...
Councils in England will face an average cut in spending power of 1.8% in 2015/16, local government minister Kris Hopkins has announced, but London boroughs and urban authorities will face larger...
Health service watchdog Monitor has announced it will consider failure by foundation trusts to meet the government’s new waiting time targets for mental health treatment as a possible breach of...
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has announced that allocations from the extra £2bn government funding to be provided to the health service next year will be set out later this month.
Almost 90% of NHS finance managers believe that the additional £2bn for the health service next year is insufficient, according to a snap survey carried out by the Healthcare Financial Management...
Community health services need a similar level of scrutiny as that given to hospitals if they are to succeed in helping people to live independently, the King's Fund has said.
NHS finance directors have warned that both commissioners and providers in the health service face a worsening financial position in 2014/15 compared to 12 months ago.
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that an extra £2bn will be made available to the NHS from next April in response to calls from the health service to boost funding.
The Autumn Statement should provide the NHS with an additional £2bn in funding in order to head off a financial crisis, the King’s Fund has said today.
Monitor has urged NHS foundation trusts to improve control of their contract and agency staffing costs after finding that they had spent double what they planned between April and September.
Workers across the NHS have today taken strike action in protest at a government decision to not award a cost-of-living pay increase to all members of staff.
Public service ombudsmen today launched a drive to improve the consistency of complaint handling across NHS and social care services in response to the care failings at the Mid Staffordshire hospital...