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8 Mar 16
A £2.3bn deficit across the NHS in the first nine months of the financial year illustrates the pressure the health service is under. Next week’s Budget may shed more light on what the long-term...
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28 Jan 16
Health service watchdog Monitor has announced it is to tighten its processes for awarding hospitals foundation trust status after a review called on it to strengthen its approach, including to...
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20 Nov 15
NHS providers recorded a deficit of £1.6bn in the first six months of the financial year, £358m worse than planned, due to significant challenges across the service, health watchdogs said...
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9 Oct 15
Higher-than-expected staff costs have led to NHS providers running a deficit of £930m in the first three months of 2015/16, £163m more than forecast, figures released by watchdogs have...
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1 Sep 15
The NHS Trust Development Authority and Monitor have issued new rules to reduce the amount the health service spends on agency staff.
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11 Jun 15
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is to merge the chief executive posts at Monitor and the Trust Development Authority as part of an effort to improve the coordination between the NHS watchdogs.
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1 May 15
Monitor has launched an investigation into a deterioration in the finances at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a major teaching hospital in South London.
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20 Nov 13
The government's full response to the Francis inquiry report into Mid Staffs contains many welcome proposals. But squaring the quality and finance agendas is going to prove tough