'No blank cheques' was Chancellor Gordon Brown's warning to public sector workers, after pledging £40bn to the NHS in the Budget. Last week's pay settlement for 300,000 health service staff showed...
The NHS could save millions of pounds each year and promote better health by playing a more proactive role in local communities, a King's Fund report says this week.
External managers have been sent into the Royal United Hospital in Bath following the disclosure of poor financial management and the possible falsification of waiting lists.
The future outline of English regional government was laid out on May 9 when Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and Local Government Secretary Stephen Byers launched the regions white paper.
District Audit, the biggest supplier of accounting information to the Audit Commission, has uncovered £40m of public sector fraud in 2000/01, according to its annual report.
The announcement of a general election in the Irish Republic has been marked by a radical manifesto proposal from the ruling Fianna Fail party to combine major infrastructural investment with off-...
The Department of Health has paved the way for a rapid increase in the number of managers in Primary Care Trusts this week after they were given the freedom to spend what they need on management.
Improvements in the health service must go hand in hand with higher pay for NHS staff, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis warned the government this week.
Money will follow the patient. Trusts will be paid on results. Hospitals that treat more patients will receive more money. GP-led commissioning bodies will be able to scrap deals with local NHS care...
Proposals to set up independent inspectorates for health and social care should result in a less politicised NHS that is freed from Whitehall control, the King's Fund said this week.
The health secretary has warned nurses that the salary increases expected following the restructuring of the NHS pay system will 'not be a something-for-nothing arrangement'.
The Department of Health will propose a 'fundamental' reform of the NHS clinical negligence system after it was revealed that the English health service had to set aside £4.4bn to cover claims during...
London Mayor Ken Livingstone's imminent new transport powers will come under increasing internal scrutiny following a fundamental reorganisation of the Greater London Authority's independent...
NHS managers dazzled by this week's £40bn Budget boost called on the government to trust them to improve the health service. But they warned ministers not to expect instant results.
Backbench Labour MPs this week raised fears that NHS trusts were unnecessarily selling off millions of pounds worth of property and land to inject much-needed cash into hospital services.
The Department of Health is to review the national breast cancer screening programme following a report that highlighted 'unacceptable and avoidable' failures in one London screening service.
Public services are to receive an extra £4bn in 2003/04, with over half allocated to the health service, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in this week's Budget.
Some of the most disadvantaged people in society are missing out on disability benefits because of delays and mistakes in medical assessments, MPs have discovered.
The chancellor should 'take to heart' figures showing the English health service can improve if given sufficient funding, the NHS Confederation said this week.
The Local Government Association and the NHS Confederation have joined forces to press Chancellor Gordon Brown over what they claim is a £1bn gap in social services provision.
The Liberal Democrats pledged to create a 'world-class NHS' with more investment than ever before when they unveiled their alternative Budget on April 8.
