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28 May 15
The government’s flagship Better Care Fund should be extended quickly so that both local authorities and the NHS can plan further integration of spending, an expert has said.
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19 May 15
Audit firm 360 Assurance has won CIPFA’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Public Service Audit in recognition of its work supporting NHS clinical commissioning groups.
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18 May 15
Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed that an extra £8bn will be put into the NHS over the course of the next Parliament to help support its transformation into a ‘seven-day’ service.
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29 Apr 15
GPs are crucial to plans set out in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View. They must work together to ensure service changes can be brought to fruition.
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23 Apr 15
Manifesto pledges suggest there will be more money for the NHS whoever wins the election, but there are radically different ideas about how to manage change and meet patients’ needs
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23 Apr 15
The NHS is facing the biggest financial challenge in its recent history during 2015/16, the King’s Fund has warned, with both mounting deficits and worsening performance.
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20 Apr 15
A poll of Conservative councillors has found support for greater use of charges and privatisation within the NHS, the Labour party has claimed today.
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13 Apr 15
The Royal College of Nursing has warned the next government must take ‘immediate action’ to increase the number of nurses in the NHS or risk falling standards of care.
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7 Apr 15
There has been a decline in the number of GP surgeries offering evening and weekend appointments over the last five years, according to Labour’s health spokesman Andy Burnham.
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26 Mar 15
The performance of the NHS has deteriorated over the last two years of the coalition government, and there is a real risk patient care will suffer as the health service heads into deficit, an...
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18 Mar 15
Public spending is set to increase from 2019/20, bringing austerity to an end a year earlier than planned, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget.
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13 Mar 15
Nearly a million public sector workers are to receive average pay increases of 1% in 2015/16, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has confirmed.
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16 Dec 14
As the dust settles on the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, this is a good time to review what it told us. It contained three big messages: one on money, one on reform, and one on social care.
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6 Nov 14
The NHS is in a financially unsustainable position following a deterioration over the last two financial years, the National Audit Office has concluded.
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4 Nov 14
General practice is in need of both more money and significant reform if it is to meet the challenge set out by NHS England in its Five Year Forward View, according to the Nuffield Trust.
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24 Sep 14
As NHS staff ballot on industrial action – and discontent rises over pay and salary progression throughout the public sector – years of severe pay restraint are taking their toll
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11 Jul 14
Trade union Unison has welcomed the announcement from the European Commission that health services will not be included in a proposed trans-Atlantic trade deal, which could have increased competition...
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8 May 14
The regulator is getting tough with charities in England and Wales that file their accounts late. John Maddocks looks at the importance of transparency and new best practice for trustees due this...
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16 Apr 14
NHS trusts are sinking ever deeper into debt, and the financial prognosis is gloomy. So what happens when the cash runs out?
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24 Mar 14
Doctors’ leaders have urged Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to reconsider his decision to not offer an annual pay increase to those NHS staff in line for higher wages through job progression
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20 Nov 13
The government's full response to the Francis inquiry report into Mid Staffs contains many welcome proposals. But squaring the quality and finance agendas is going to prove tough
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30 Oct 13
Changes to the NHS and local authority landscape present new opportunities to tackle physical inactivity. This needs to be reflected in public health policy-making
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5 Aug 13
With only a 'handful' of NHS trusts likely to meet new data requirements from April 2014, it's time for action. Trusts need the necessary data at their disposal if they are to avoid...
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7 Mar 13
Productivity levels have long been an issue for the NHS. But with spending at a standstill and demand soaring, the problem is becoming acute
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24 May 11
It's not the easiest time to be running the finances of an NHS hospital but Chelsea & Westminster FD Lorraine Bewes says the prognosis is good. She tells PF how the foundation trust is...