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...
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.
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...
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?
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.
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...
Finance chiefs in charge of implementing NHS sustainability and transformation plans are struggling with a “club versus country” dichotomy, according to the Healthcare Financial...
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
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.
The system of oversight of NHS organisations could be more effective if it was streamlined, a senior figure from the regulator NHS Improvement has suggested.
The collapse of a contract worth £800m to provide adult community health services for people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough was rushed into with ‘gross irresponsibility’ and could lead to patient...
The chair of the health select committee has accused the government of “giving the false impression that the NHS is awash with cash” through repeated claims that ministers have provided £10bn in...
Caps on agency spending in the NHS have now been in place for a year. Progress has been made, but services will need to be redesigned to address the underlying issues.
Diversion of NHS funds from plans to reform services in order to cover hospital deficits could jeopardise plans to improve patient care outlined in the five year plan for the health service in...
Three more hospital trusts are to enter a financial special measures programme run by NHS Improvement due to “significant concerns” about their finances, the regulator has announced.
Experts brought together by PF and CIPFA as part of the Public Finance Perspectives series have concluded that urgent and radical reforms will be needed to fund the health and social care...
