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10 Dec 15
The next financial year is a “firebreak” year for the NHS in which it must get itself back into balance, the service’s finance managers have been told.
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9 Dec 15
The NHS ombudsman has found that poor complaint handling in the health service mean that problems with care are not being uncovered in hospital investigations into avoidable harm or death.
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3 Dec 15
Plans to integrate health and social care provision in Scotland face significant risks that must be addressed if the reform is to improve how services are delivered, a report has found.
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1 Dec 15
The junior doctors’ strike, set to go ahead in England today, has been called off after the British Medical Association said agreement had been reached to resume negotiations over contract...
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30 Nov 15
What last week’s Spending Review meant for health and social care can be explained in just four numbers.
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27 Nov 15
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
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27 Nov 15
There is growing dissatisfaction with access to GP surgeries, while age, ethnicity and where a patient lives can bear heavily on their ability to get an appointment, the National Audit Office has...
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26 Nov 15
The chancellor is enjoying a lucky run in having significantly better than expected public finances to rely on in planning the next five years.
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25 Nov 15
A £3.8bn increase to the NHS budget next year will give the health service “a fighting chance” of implementing the Five Year Forward View reform plan, experts have said.
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24 Nov 15
Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
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23 Nov 15
The Future-Focused Finance initiative has piloted a toolkit to help clinical and financial teams in the NHS build stronger working relationships and identify shared priorities
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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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19 Nov 15
Campaigners have illustrated the extent of mounting financial pressures on the mental health system, launching a report in parliament today.
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19 Nov 15
Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action next month in the dispute over changes to pay arrangements and working hours.
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18 Nov 15
NHS finance chiefs have warned that the £8bn funding boost promised for the health service by Prime Minister David Cameron will not be enough to deliver the flagship Five Year Forward View...
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17 Nov 15
The government’s devolution plans look set to have far-reaching consequences for health service provision.
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12 Nov 15
Cuts to mental health funding have prompted a “leap in the dark” on patient care as trusts implement untested reforms, the King’s Fund said.
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10 Nov 15
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has called for social care and public health funding to be protected in the forthcoming Spending Review, saying to cut these budgets while increasing NHS...
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5 Nov 15
Junior doctors in England are to be balloted on strike action after the British Medical Association said a pay offer by health secretary Jeremy Hunt intended to end the dispute over a new contract...
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2 Nov 15
Waiting times in the NHS are continuing to deteriorate and are unlikely to improve amid financial pressures in the health service, an analysis by the Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation has...
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23 Oct 15
Integration of health and social care will require significant additional upfront funding to be successful, and the reform is not likely to lead to savings in the short-term, an analysis by CIPFA has...
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22 Oct 15
Health spending may be protected, but that doesn’t mean the NHS will have it easy in the upcoming Spending Review.
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22 Oct 15
Cuts to social care budgets in local government are putting extra pressure on NHS services, according to over 80% of heath service finance directors who responded to a King’s Fund poll.
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21 Oct 15
Progress in improving NHS diabetes care in England has stalled, a National Audit Office review has found.
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20 Oct 15
Everyone in healthcare needs to understand finance, and finance staff need to know about clinical issues. The NHS Future-Focused Finance programme is bringing them together