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5 Apr 17
The government’s “shocking” lack of long-term planning and underfunding is a danger to the NHS and adult social care, a House of Lords select committee has warned.
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3 Apr 17
The NHS needs to bang the drum for patient access, its workforce and clinical care in the EU negotiations
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29 Mar 17
NHS workers, doctors and dentists, and members of the armed forces will get a 1% pay rise in 2017-18, the government has confirmed.
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28 Mar 17
The NHS in England could soon stop prescribing medicines considered ‘low priority’ in a bid to save £400m a year.
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17 Mar 17
The NHS’s financial problems are not just a problem for its finance staff – the wider service and the public need to understand the issues
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14 Mar 17
Community and public health services in England have been worst hit by financial pressures on the NHS, says a King’s Fund report out today.
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6 Mar 17
A small number of local authorities are to blame for half of all delayed discharges in the NHS, chancellor Philip Hammond said as he indicated this week’s Budget could provide targeted cash to tackle...
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2 Mar 17
Almost 150,000 NHS and adult social care workers are at risk of losing their right to work in the UK after Brexit, the Trades Union Congress has warned.
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27 Feb 17
Public bickering between government ministers and NHS chiefs is undermining efforts to address the health service’s financial challenges, a committee of MPs has warned today.
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21 Feb 17
Ministers must be prepared to champion controversial proposals for hospital reorganisations in sustainability and transformation plans developed across England, the King’s Fund has said.
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20 Feb 17
NHS providers have amassed a deficit of almost £900m in the first nine months of the current financial year, driven by high demand in a “challenging winter”, official figures have shown.
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16 Feb 17
NHS bodies have called on the government to provide extra funding in the 8 March Budget to help local areas deliver social care for older people to avoid a “complete collapse” in the...
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1 Feb 17
The NHS is failing to recover enough money from overseas patients because its current systems are “chaotic”, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have said.
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17 Jan 17
To stop healthcare from deteriorating, the entire NHS workforce needs to learn about how its finances work
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11 Jan 17
Nurses and doctors have added their voices to concerns about pressures in the NHS, with nurses’ leaders warning that staff are at “breaking point”.
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10 Jan 17
The public should avoid “inappropriate” visits to A&E in order to help the NHS meet its four-hour waiting time target, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt reiterated at a conference...
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19 Dec 16
In 2016, Brexit and the NHS must have individually generated more column inches than anything else. But are enough people actually talking about Brexit and the NHS?
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16 Dec 16
Pressures in the NHS have become so severe that an extra five hospitals worth of beds were needed to fully meet demand last winter, according to the Nuffield Trust.
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9 Dec 16
Widespread variation and excessive medical locum costs continue to hamper the NHS’s financial performance, NHS Improvement head Jim Mackey has said.
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6 Dec 16
Poor patient flow through the NHS wastes time and money, can hurt patients, and is deeply frustrating for people working in health and care, according to a report from the Health Foundation and the...
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1 Dec 16
Finance chiefs in charge of implementing NHS sustainability and transformation plans are struggling with a “club versus country” dichotomy, according to the Healthcare Financial...
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30 Nov 16
Local authorities are bound by law to balance the books. If NHS trusts were charged with the same expectation, dependency on government handouts could be eliminated
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22 Nov 16
The financial performance of NHS bodies “worsened considerably” in 2015-16 and has become unsustainable, according to the National Audit Office.
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21 Nov 16
NHS providers recorded a deficit of £648m in the first six months of the financial year, almost £1bn lower than in the same period last year, according to figures from NHS Improvement.
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21 Nov 16
Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS Improvement, talks exclusively to PF about deficits, determination – and thinking outside the silos