Strong measures are needed to protect the NHS from the planned transatlantic free trade deal being negotiated by the European Union and the United States, the NHS Confederation has said.
The Treasury has announced that an extra £300m will be made available to the NHS to ensure that the service is well prepared for the pressures of a cold winter amid ‘unprecedented demand’.
The cost of out-of-hours health services varies ‘unacceptably’ and NHS England lacks the information needed to understand why, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
Early plans to integrate local health and social care services through the Better Care Fund are ‘inadequate’ and fail to match the scale of its ambition, the National Audit Office warned today.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
The government plans to claw back redundancy payments from NHS and council managers who return to work in the same sector within a year, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced.
Many councils spend ‘close to nothing’ on mental health services despite town hall remits to prevent both physical and mental health problems in the communities they serve, a survey by Mind has found.
The NHS in England will face a £30bn shortfall by 2020/21 and both funding increases and changes to provision will be needed over the next five years to deliver improvements, health service leaders...
Specialist knowledge is too concentrated in hospitals and patients’ increasingly complex needs should be treated closer to home by consultants spending more time in community care settlings, the King...
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is to develop a new charter of pledges as part of its revamp of the complaints procedure for the NHS and other government department and agencies.
The disparity in the quality of health and care services in England is ‘unacceptable’, the Care Quality Commission had concluded, with safety of provision the watchdog’s biggest concern in its annual...
Some 20% of NHS workers need a second job to make ends meet, a survey by trade union Unison has found as strike action takes place across the health service today.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has announced the first Scottish taxes in more than 300 years in his 2015/16 Budget package in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced the creation the first-ever waiting time targets for mental health services. The plans are part of a proposed £500m investment to ensure treatment for...
More than 500 GP surgeries face closure because a recruitment and retention crisis means doctors who retire are not being replaced, the Royal College of General Practitioners has warned.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to balance the public finances by 2018 and said a Conservative government would not increase taxes to tackle the £25bn funding gap that still needs to be...
A Labour government would reform NHS hospitals to become integrated care organisations under plans to merge physical, mental and social provision, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham announced today...
Labour leader Ed Miliband has set out a 10-year plan for Britain’s future that includes a £2.5bn boost for health and social care, a large expansion of housebuilding and halving the number of low-...
A former policing minister has said plans to further integrate emergency services could eventually lead to force mergers, but insisted these would be determined locally rather than imposed by...