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11 Jun 19
The government urged for public health services’ commissioning to be more joined-up, as it confirmed the responsibility would remain with local authorities.
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4 Jun 19
The interim NHS People Plan has outlined an “increasing role” for Integrated Care Systems in addressing workforce challenges.
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4 Jun 19
Sure Start centres – that have been closing in their hundreds over the past decade - offer major health benefits to disadvantaged children, a think-tank has found.
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31 May 19
GP practice closures in the UK hit record levels last year as the health service deals with a workforce crisis, an investigation has found.
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30 May 19
Nurses love their jobs but employers need to stem their rising work pressures, stress and poor mental health, says NHS Employers’s Sue Covill.
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28 May 19
Our health and social care services will suffer if the government does not invest in public health, says Cancer Research UK’s Alison Cox.
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24 May 19
The use of AI in the NHS has huge potential in saving man-hours and focusing staff on more complex tasks, writes NHS Shared Business Services’ Stephen Sutcliffe.
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23 May 19
Making social care free at the point of need for over 65s could save the NHS £4.5bn each year by 2030, according to think-tank analysis.
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21 May 19
A growing number of children are being admitted to mental health hospitals unnecessarily, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.
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20 May 19
The government must replace the £1bn that it “catastrophically ripped out” of nursing higher education, the head of the Royal College of Nursing will say.
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7 May 19
The Labour party has revealed that alarming numbers of ambulance staff are leaving their jobs because of rising work levels and poor morale.
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2 May 19
The NHS has “plunged deeper into crisis” after services reported the worst performance rates on record over the winter period, a trade body has found.
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26 Apr 19
The health secretary has warned “things must change” to eliminate the NHS’s gender pay gap.
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18 Apr 19
The government has “swindled” public sector workers out of £2.4bn in pension payments, a union has claimed.
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16 Apr 19
A quarter of NHS nursing wards in England are operating with “high-risk” staffing levels, research has found.
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11 Apr 19
Treasury plans to cap public sector exit payments have sparked anger from unions.
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10 Apr 19
The growing pay divide between people working directly for the NHS and outsourcing staff is impacting patient care, a union has warned.
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5 Apr 19
Rigid rules on procurement in the NHS have led to a “huge waste” of time and money, MPs have heard.
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5 Apr 19
An NHS trust was repaid £1.2m after a major fraud against UK public bodies, the NHS Counter Fraud Authority has disclosed.
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3 Apr 19
Delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan is threatened by a “worrying level of disparity” in the financial performance of local health bodies, MPs have warned.
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3 Apr 19
The health service needs resources allocated in the right places, says CIPFA’s Eleanor Roy.
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3 Apr 19
Can an integrated approach to how NHS organisations work – both with each other and local authorities – help it to better manage income and demand for services? Alison Moore reports.
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28 Mar 19
More than 200,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010, according to research by the Labour Party.
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22 Mar 19
Tackling NHS workforce shortages in England will require £900m a year until 2023-24, think-tanks have said.
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22 Mar 19
Improving NHS waiting time performance requires “significant investment”, the public spending watchdog has said.