The scale of the financial issues English health services face now and in the coming years is “unprecedented”, the National Audit Office has claimed in a report – with the government claiming the NHS...
With the government encouraging closer working between the public and private healthcare sector and a wide acknowledgement that NHS trusts need to generate more commercial income, now is a good time...
Sir Julian Hartley explains that NHS trusts are making productivity gains despite the huge pressure they are under, and urges the next government to end the funding brinkmanship providers have now...
Huge NHS waiting lists are probably driving growth in the number of patients paying out-of-pocket for hospital care across the UK, a think-tank has said.
Real-terms increases in health spending have failed to reach the levels promised by the government five years ago, despite the pandemic, growing ill health and record waiting lists, analysis has...
Concerns over the lack of career progression for nurses have prompted the government to explore alternatives, including a new national contract and pay scale separate from other NHS staff.
Reversing the declining performance in the NHS, courts and education systems could take two parliamentary terms and require a “bold package of reforms”, the Institute for Public Policy Research has...
The High Court has rejected a hospital trust’s request for a judicial review of three councils’ refusal to make a developer pay nearly £2m to offset increased demand for services.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will get a pay rise now the government has accepted pay review body recommendations, but not funding that pay rise with extra money will mean services...
Plans to boost long-term recruitment into the NHS have been broadly welcomed, but could be at risk due to expensive temporary staffing arrangements, experts have said.
“Substantial underinvestment” in an ageing NHS estate has worsened care backlogs and left healthcare services worse than other developed countries, experts have warned.
The huge backlog of unaudited local government accounts has ramifications across government, including for entire departments and the NHS, the head of the NAO has warned.
