A lack of power has meant the organisation set up to manage NHS properties has racked up nearly £700m in debts since it was created, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
England’s top doctor has said new polling supports NHS proposals to overhaul A&E waiting time targets and put more priority on speedy initial assessments.
The NHS infrastructure plan identifies critical issues with the NHS capital funding but more solutions are needed from government, writes Nuffield Trust’s Nigel Edwards.
NHS England has missed the government’s vaccination targets for a fifth consecutive year despite funding of £145m in 2018-19, the spending watchdog has found.
Local bodies must put more emphasis on keeping records of their spend on preventing ill health, CIPFA’s chief executive Rob Whiteman told a health conference today.
Boards aimed at improving local wellbeing of citizens must start “thinking and acting differently” to achieve their potential, the Welsh Auditor General has said.
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
NHS accountants have been told to raid their capital budgets in sometimes “barely legal” circumstances, Public Accounts Chair Meg Hillier told a Labour conference fringe session.
PF in association with CIPFA has created a ‘promisometer’ to which spending pledges by the three main parties will be added ahead of the election on 12 December.