Health minister Dan Poulter has insisted implementation of a host of reforms to social care will not place undue pressure on local authority budgets at a time of funding constraints in town halls.
Public sector employment fell by a further 11,000 to 5.39 million in the second quarter of 2014 to hit the lowest level recorded since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics has...
The quality of NHS care is beginning to decline across a number of areas as a result of the spending squeeze in the health service, a healthcare charity has warned today.
A coalition of 21 healthcare bodies has called for NHS services to be reconfigured to meet the needs of the growing numbers of people with ongoing issues, especially older people, those with long...
A decision by the Department of Health to prioritise the financial stability of local health economies over fair funding allocations has meant that there has been ‘very slow progress’ towards reform...
Home Secretary Theresa May has said further integration of the operations of the three emergency services will be needed in the next parliament in response to budget cuts.
The health sector regulator Monitor has today announced it is placing the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust into special measures because of serious failures in patient safety and...
Official figures have shown health authorities in Scotland are failing to meet key performance targets, which come as the Yes campaign for Scottish independence has moved healthcare provision to the...
Bad news stories are keeping the NHS in the headlines, despite the best efforts of ministers to shift the public’s gaze elsewhere before the election. Now two authoritative reports suggest there is a...
The Department of Health has slashed the number of Better Care Fund areas that are fast-tracking their plans from 14 to six, Public Finance can reveal.
GP surgeries have been warned that if they are found to be providing poor or unsafe care face they will be shut down under a new ‘two-strikes-and-you're-out’ policy being introduced by the Care...
First Minister Alex Salmond has promised Scottish voters that a publicly owned National Health Service, free at the point of delivery and prioritised according to clinical need, would be entrenched...
Children’s mental health services need a complete overhaul to address ‘unacceptable failings’ and provide better care and support for young people, councils have said today.
Some 60% of patients were not offered a choice of hospital or clinic by their general practitioner for their first outpatient appointment, despite having a legal right to choose one, a survey of NHS...
Trade unions have hit out at the decision by Danny Alexander to cancel the independent review of NHS pay for 2015/16, warning this would increase the likelihood of industrial action.
A majority of the 11 hospitals placed in special measures last July have made improvements to care and management as a result of a regime that included assistance from well-performing hospitals, a...
No NHS patient should have to wait more than a year for treatment, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today in a new commitment for the health service.
Patients were unable to get GP appointments within a week on nearly 42 million occasions last year, the Royal College of General Practitioners has said today. It also predicted this would increase to...
Auditors are increasingly worried about the financial resilience of NHS trusts, with more issuing qualified conclusions on value for money arrangements and statutory reports to the health secretary,...