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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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