The proportion of patients found to be no longer eligible for health and social care costs following reassessment has risen by almost 30% in the past eight years – even though the criteria for...
Among public finance leaders, the argument has moved on from whether the NHS needs investment to whether the way it runs its corporate services enables that money to benefit patients and staff, as...
NHS leaders have called for political backing to make difficult decisions in the year ahead amid growing financial pressures, warning that recent progress could be lost.
The government’s commitment to NHS reforms in this parliamentary session was laid out in the King’s speech including the introduction of the single patient record and abolishing NHS England, with...
A decade-long plan to offer NHS support staff access to training so they can progress into registered roles has had the most success in wealthier areas, analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
Wes Streeting has accused NHS trusts and integrated care boards of trying to cut their deficits too sharply, despite the government announcing last year that the latter must slash 50% of their...
The Autumn Budget contained few surprises for health. Yet there were some notable announcements for the NHS, in terms of capital investment and the ‘shape’ of the revenue settlement to support reform...
Plans to “reinvent the NHS’ financial model” and turn it from a service treating sickness to one that truly makes people healthy form the basis of the government’s 10 Year Plan.
Health spending will increase by billions of pounds following Rachel Reeves’s first multi-year Spending Review as chancellor, but at a cost to other departments.
The leaders of failing NHS trusts could see their pay docked by £15,000 as part of a government drive to use senior salaries to improve performance across the health sector.
The unsustainable rise in health spending could be ended and save the UK £21bn a year if new approaches to NHS reform are adopted, a leading think-tank claims.
Savings in the health service are possible without patients losing out, but finding these savings will require a whole-organisation approach, write Michael Rees, Sarah Reed and Austen Morgan of...
The £25bn injection for the NHS announced in the Budget will not lead to an overnight transformation in the quality of healthcare, sector leaders have cautioned.
The prime minister has said there will be “no more money without reform” for the NHS after a damning government-commissioned analysis warned that the service was in a critical condition, chronically...
The scale of the financial issues English health services face now and in the coming years is “unprecedented”, the National Audit Office has claimed in a report – with the government claiming the NHS...
With the government encouraging closer working between the public and private healthcare sector and a wide acknowledgement that NHS trusts need to generate more commercial income, now is a good time...
Sir Julian Hartley explains that NHS trusts are making productivity gains despite the huge pressure they are under, and urges the next government to end the funding brinkmanship providers have now...
