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.
Pressure to increase health and defence spending will make cuts to other public services hard to avoid in the Spending Review, according to a leading think-tank.
Pandemic-era contracts for unsuitable personal protective equipment cost the government £1.4bn, of which £762m is unlikely to ever be recovered, according to an interim report commissioned by...
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.
Extra GP appointments, a “cost of living guarantee” and the scrapping of peak rail fares have been given top priority in the Scottish Government’s legislative programme for the next year.
The UK is storing up increasing economic risks through under-investment in adapting infrastructure, agriculture and healthcare to climate change, according to a government advisor.
Health services in Wales must urgently improve or face high risks to patient safety and poor value for taxpayers’ money, a group of ministerial advisors has warned.
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.
The Scottish Government will face “significant challenges” funding devolved public services in the future because of the twin difficulties of an ageing population and worsening health, the nation’s...
The previous government’s drive to boost dental care across England has “comprehensively failed” and resulted in fewer new patients seeing an NHS dentist, according to a highly critical report from...
Government plans to cut disability benefits could leave local authority social care services and the NHS facing extra costs of £1.2bn, a think-tank has warned.
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...
Falling life expectancy can only be tackled by a greater emphasis on prevention and a strengthened role for local government in improving health outcomes, researchers have argued.
NHS England is to be abolished with health services brought under direct government control as part of a drive to cut red tape and free up resources for the front line.
A fresh approach to capital investment could help improve the terrible condition of parts of the health service estate, writes NHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery.
