Significant funds need to be poured into the NHS to avert a looming financial crisis, but must not be used to prop up unsustainable services, the King’s Fund said today.
The economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, meaning the rate of expansion has quickened compared to the last three months of 2013, figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed...
Nearly £1.2bn will be spent across the NHS to improve patient care following the public inquiry into failures at the Mid Staffordshire hospital trust, a survey has found. But the poll of NHS hospital...
Total public sector borrowing in 2013/14 was £107.7bn, nearly £7.5bn lower than the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics’ first estimate of the deficit for the whole of the...
A majority of finance professionals working in non-profit organisations would like to see an international standard for financial reporting in the sector introduced, according to research from the...
UK growth is set to reach 2.7% this year as consumer spending continues to recover following the economic crisis, the Ernst & Young Item Club has predicted today.
The rate of UK public library closures slowed last year, with 74 libraries shutting compared to 201 in 2011/12, CIPFA’s latest library survey has revealed.
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has accused councils of misleading the public by claiming they have no money left, but continuing to add to their reserves
One in ten councils is struggling to deliver planned budgets, having either failed to make savings, overspent on some services or suffered shortfalls in income, according to the Audit Commission
Four out of ten NHS trusts did not achieve their planned savings in the 2012/13 financial year creating concerns about their long-term financial resilience, according to research published by Grant...
Councils in the Midlands and North of England are facing much deeper cuts to their funding than those in London and the South, an analysis by the Special Interest Group of Metropolitan Authorities...
Scotland’s public finances are robust enough to support independence and will only get stronger should the country leave the Union, the Scottish Government said today as it set out its vision for...
The Department of Health has said it is concerned by an almost 30% rise in the number of excess deaths recorded last winter but stressed that the NHS is ready for any coming cold weather-related...
A Labour government would implement the majority of the recommendations in today’s report from the Independent Police Commission, Ed Miliband confirmed today
National Insurance should be scrapped and replaced with ‘personal welfare accounts’ that provide an income during periods of joblessness, parental leave, higher education and retirement, a think-tank...
