Policymakers in England should avoid thinking about the ageing population as a discrete issue and instead make ageing part of a national conversation with policy implications across a host of other...
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...
English councils are facing rising external debt and a fall in usable reserves following a 4.1% real-terms increase in spending on social care by local authorities in the past year, analysis has...
“Substantial underinvestment” in an ageing NHS estate has worsened care backlogs and left healthcare services worse than other developed countries, experts have warned.
Councils will be unable to meet the swelling demand for social care without additional funding to help alleviate the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention, experts have said.
“Unbearable” overlapping crises in the NHS will lead to more hospitals declaring critical incidents, health leaders have warned, as unions call on the government to get a grip on workforce issues.
Ten per cent of services for those with learning disabilities and autism were rated as inadequate up to September this year compared to just 1% in 2018, according to the Care Quality Commission.
Local authorities are bound by law to balance the books. If NHS trusts were charged with the same expectation, dependency on government handouts could be eliminated
NHS providers recorded a deficit of £648m in the first six months of the financial year, almost £1bn lower than in the same period last year, according to figures from NHS Improvement.
Efforts to create sustainability and transformation plans across the NHS in England have been “beset by problems”, but the process still represents the best hope to improve health and...
Three health charities have said that plugging a £1.9bn social care funding gap is a more urgent priority than boosting funding for the NHS in this month’s Autumn Statement.
Diversion of NHS funds from plans to reform services in order to cover hospital deficits could jeopardise plans to improve patient care outlined in the five year plan for the health service in...
Cuts to adult social care have left the system increasingly unable to meet the needs of the older people who depend on it, with the funding gap set to reach at least £2.8bn by the end of the decade,...
The government should be honest about the difficulties facing the NHS and what can realistically be delivered within the current budget, a think-tank has urged.
Nearly two-thirds of NHS trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups finance leads think their local quality of patient care has deteriorated over the past year,...
GP practices are “in crisis” with demand for consultations growing at three times the rate of increase in the number of family doctors, according to the King’s Fund.
The homes we live in can have a profound impact on our health and, by extension, on the finances of the NHS. Housing associations and care providers are being brought together to consider...
The performance of NHS accident and emergency departments in England fell to a new low in January this year, according to official figures published today.
