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21 Jun 16
The NHS needs to chart a tough course back to balance. But a new approach is needed, one that stresses support and not blame for failing to meet the impossible
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20 Jun 16
Simon Stevens has announced the creation of a specific NHS payment tariff to fast-track medical technology and innovations across the health service.
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15 Jun 16
After decades of dodging the issue, the NHS finally needs to rethink how it uses its estate if it is to meet Lord Carter’s efficiency challenge
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14 Jun 16
Britain’s most senior trade union leader is warning there will be less money available to fund the NHS if the UK votes to leave the European Union next week.
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2 Jun 16
The deficit at small hospitals in England more than doubled in 2015-16 to pass £300m, according to a report by EY.
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26 May 16
The majority of NHS leaders think Brexit would have a negative impact on the UK’s health services, according to a survey by NHS Providers.
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20 May 16
NHS providers in England ended 2015-16 with a £2.45bn deficit, the second successive year it has been plunged into the red, raising concerns that the Department of Health’s spending limit...
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19 May 16
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
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11 May 16
The government’s ambition to provide a seven-day NHS presents a serious risk to public money as flawed workforce planning leaves the cost of the policy virtually unknown, the Public Accounts...
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4 May 16
Faith in the national NHS tariff is waning rapidly. It’s ripe for reform and a reappraisal of what it is trying to achieve
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26 Apr 16
Junior doctors are taking part in the first all-out industrial action in the history of the NHS in an escalation of a dispute over new contract terms.
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25 Apr 16
There is barely an area of health services provision entirely untouched by EU law, but it is necessary to look behind the generalisations to get to the details.
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25 Apr 16
Jeremy Hunt has written to the British Medical Association urging them to call off the junior doctors strike set for tomorrow that will see them refuse to provide emergency treatment for the first...
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21 Apr 16
Spending on GP services is to increase by £2.4bn a year under a plan set out by NHS England today to “get general practice back on its feet”.
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6 Apr 16
The last financial year was a bruising one for the NHS and this one looks to be tough as well. Here are five recollections of 2015/16 and five things to look out for in 2016/17
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1 Apr 16
Today’s devolution of NHS funding to Greater Manchester has been hailed as a “historic new era” for health and care by senior local government and health figures in the region.
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29 Mar 16
The parlous state of the NHS finances requires answers to some difficult questions from the number of commissioners and providers to the role of the market
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24 Mar 16
Value goes beyond cost – it also embraces patient outcomes and experience, says the Royal Free hospital’s Caroline Clarke, a champion of change and diversity
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22 Mar 16
Non-executives need to focus on the people who make our public services tick. Nowhere is this clearer than in healthcare, writes NHS Improvement chair Ed Smith
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22 Mar 16
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18 Mar 16
The NHS will continue to need huge cash injections until the UK adopts a longer-term approach to health and wellness
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16 Mar 16
Details of the 44 areas that will develop of sustainability and transformation plans for the health service have been revealed by NHS England, with two council chief executives among those named to...
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11 Mar 16
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have announced they are to provide additional financial advice and expertise to hospitals in a bid to tackle the £2.3bn deficit in the health...
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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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8 Mar 16
The current lack of integration between physical and mental health services in the NHS increases costs by over £11bn a year, according to an analysis by the King’s Fund.