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8 Nov 18
The 18-week target for elective NHS treatment should be a priority when the health service receives its annual £20.5bn boost, according to 70% of British adults in a poll.
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5 Nov 18
Local government has a “vital” role to play as the government pivots towards preventive healthcare – but cuts to public health budgets need to be reversed.
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2 Nov 18
Prisons operating on a “shoestring” budget are failing to provide sufficient healthcare for inmates, MPs have found.
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31 Oct 18
The disconnect between the rhetoric of ‘ending austerity’ and current spending plans will make next year’s Spending Review harder than it needs to be, argues the IfG’s Graham Atkins.
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31 Oct 18
The chancellor managed to ease the squeeze on the public sector with his Budget on Monday but he dodged the tough decisions needed to come up with long-term solutions for funding services, says the...
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30 Oct 18
There will be “no bonanza” for public services after this year’s Budget, economists have warned.
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29 Oct 18
Ambitious plans to merge health and social care in Scotland are being hampered by a lack of leadership within the new integrated authorities, a parliamentary committee has warned.
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25 Oct 18
Mental health funding must double by 2030 to achieve ‘parity of esteem’ with physical health.
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25 Oct 18
Health services in Scotland are not financially sustainable in their current form, and immediate change is needed in how healthcare is accessed and delivered, the Scottish Government has been warned.
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24 Oct 18
Local authority public health services in England need an extra £3.2bn a year to reverse the impact of government cuts, a health think-tank has warned.
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22 Oct 18
Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.
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19 Oct 18
NHS Improvement has opened a consultation to examine the value of wholly owned subsidiaries to the health service.
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19 Oct 18
The integration of health and care will not progress while local authority finances are squeezed, MPs have warned today.
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17 Oct 18
CIPFA has replenished its health and social care team with two key appointments to help lead its work on integration.
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16 Oct 18
Public services will have to receive £19bn a year for the next five years if austerity is to end as the prime minster recently promised, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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12 Oct 18
Last year’s major cyber attack on the NHS cost £92m in service disruptions and specialist IT help, according to government estimates.
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12 Oct 18
Improving local health system is the best way of improving efficiency in the NHS, a report from a trade association has said.
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8 Oct 18
Health boards in Scotland are to have their debts written off as part of a new, more flexible three-year financial framework.
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8 Oct 18
The NHS and councils need to collaborate to develop a system to support children with mental health problems, the Local Government Association has said.
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5 Oct 18
Reports of a former minister's ‘horror’ at being given £4.2bn to digitise the NHS without any plan in place show the need for greater transparency, accountability and scrutiny of how the government...
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4 Oct 18
The Welsh Government has published its draft budget for 2019-20 including extra funds for health, social care and local government.
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4 Oct 18
Auditors have raised “serious reservations” over the finances of two Scottish health boards.
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2 Oct 18
The health secretary’s promise of £240m extra to help keep older people out of hospitals this winter has been called a “partial fix” by council and social care leaders.
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28 Sep 18
Making ambulance services in England more efficient could save the NHS £500m by 2020-21, a major review has claimed.
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27 Sep 18
The Care Quality Commission should come up with a more bespoke approach to inspection to improve the regulatory process, a health think-tank has suggested.