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16 Nov 16
Unison has called on the government to use a £2.4bn surplus in unallocated business rates to ease the crisis in social care funding.
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15 Nov 16
A focus on individual healthcare needs is vital to avoid unnecessary crises and wasted resources. Voluntary organisations are well placed to provide this
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15 Nov 16
Greater Manchester doesn’t just talk about joining up health and social care budgets – it is doing it, with promising early results
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15 Nov 16
Focusing on prevention brings long-term financial as well as health benefits. So how can we make it happen?
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15 Nov 16
Cutting demand – whether through reducing ill health or crude rationing – looks like the only way for the NHS to deal with its soaring deficit
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14 Nov 16
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...
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14 Nov 16
Urgent intervention is needed to guarantee the UK population a healthy future. Should there be a “golden” GDP ratio for healthcare spending?
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11 Nov 16
How does it feel to build a sustainable healthcare finance system from the ground up? One ‘success regime’ has been finding out
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11 Nov 16
Vulnerable older people are being denied regular showers and visits to the toilet because of cuts to social care budgets, a report by trade union Unison has said.
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9 Nov 16
Reducing variation in what healthcare spending achieves will mean resources are used more effectively, providing better value to providers, commissioners and patients alike
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8 Nov 16
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.
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7 Nov 16
Scotland faces economic and fiscal uncertainty, and tough new challenges to its healthcare services. As Yogi Berra said: ‘The future ain’t what it used to be’
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2 Nov 16
Around two-thirds of people think a greater share of the total health budget should be spent on adult social care services, according to a poll by the Local Government Association.
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31 Oct 16
The chair of the health select committee has accused the government of “giving the false impression that the NHS is awash with cash” through repeated claims that ministers have provided £10bn in...
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27 Oct 16
Up to a quarter of hospital patients could be better cared for in their homes if council social services had the money to do this, the Local Government Association has said.
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26 Oct 16
The NHS in Wales is set to receive a funding boost next year, which must be used to deliver sustained improvements in performance and patient outcomes as well as maintaining day-to-day services.
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26 Oct 16
CIPFA and PF Perspectives will be holding a panel discussion on the future of health and social care finances on Tuesday 22 November, 5.30-7.30pm, at the Medical Society of London, Lettsom House, 11...
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19 Oct 16
The prognosis for the NHS in a post-Brexit world is still very uncertain. What are the issues to watch out for as negotiations unfold?
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18 Oct 16
Funding a sustainable healthcare system was always going to be a marathon, not a sprint
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13 Oct 16
Experts brought together by PF and CIPFA as part of the Public Finance Perspectives series have concluded that urgent and radical reforms will be needed to fund the health and social care...
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13 Oct 16
Download our supplement on funding a healthy future
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12 Oct 16
Actions taken by the Department for Education since 2010 to improve the quality of local child protection services have been “extremely disappointing”, the National Audit Office said...
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7 Oct 16
CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman is to join the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plan board in northeast London as independent chair.
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28 Sep 16
Patients are too often being discharged from hospital when it is not safe for them to leave due to poor levels of health and social care integration, according to MPs.
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22 Sep 16
Social work funding in Scotland’s councils has reached a tipping point and services can no longer be sustained under existing approaches, according to a hard-hitting report today from the local...