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11 Mar 20
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced plans to remove business rates for small businesses this year, as part of a £12bn package to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.
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10 Mar 20
MPs have launched an inquiry to establish exactly how much more money the social care sector needs to drag itself out of its “longstanding crisis”.
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9 Mar 20
Health secretary Matt Hancock has written to MPs and peers asking for their views on adult social reforms, as the government attempts to reach a cross-party consensus.
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5 Mar 20
The £33.9bn NHS Long Term Plan did not include detailed plans to secure the workforce needed to deliver them, according to the National Audit Office.
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4 Mar 20
Almost half of councils overspent on their adult social care budget in 2018/19, while 82% of councils overspent exceeding their financial plans for children’s social care, according to research from...
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4 Mar 20
The Royal College of Paediatric and Children’s Health has called for the reversal of £1bn of real term cuts to the public health grant for local authorities.
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26 Feb 20
Auditors warn of “serious financial concerns” at one of the bodies responsible for planning health and social care services across Scotland.
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25 Feb 20
A decade of austerity is to blame for life expectancy in England stagnating for the first time in more than 100 years, according to a new report.
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25 Feb 20
Funding for local health watchdogs has reached the “bottom of the barrel” due to council funding struggles, the health secretary has been told.
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19 Feb 20
Government plans to scrap visas for low-skilled migrants have caused concern among health and social care groups, who say it will exacerbate workforce issues.
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11 Feb 20
The government must get to grips with fraud within the NHS which is costing £1.27bn a year, argues Matthew Jordan-Boyd of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority.
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5 Feb 20
The Centre for Public Scrutiny has started a review into the Royal College of Nursing’s governance and decision-making processes following errors in communicating a pay deal.
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5 Feb 20
Short-term financial fixes for NHS providers in England are failing to ensure the health service is able to keep up with rising demand, according to the spending watchdog.
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4 Feb 20
Almost a quarter of the population in the UK is exposed to dangerous levels of toxic particles in the air, a charity has claimed.
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3 Feb 20
The government has promised an extra £20m towards developing new vaccines for epidemics, including for three programmes aimed at immunising against the deadly coronavirus.
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15 Jan 20
There is no “viable replacement” for the NHS’s four-hour A&E target, a clinicians’ organisation has warned, following suggestions from the health secretary that the standard could be scrapped.
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13 Jan 20
Continued financial strain on the health service means councils and the NHS must work together to ensure every penny of funding is used effectively, writes research assistant at the Reform think-tank...
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9 Jan 20
One in four children in England referred to mental health services last year was rejected while some waited more than two months for treatment, analysis has found.
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18 Dec 19
The prime minister declared the NHS to be the new government’s ‘top priority’. But what might this mean in practical terms for the NHS? And does a focus on the NHS come at the expense of the wider...
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16 Dec 19
Health and social care services in Scotland face a “very significant” challenge to their financial sustainability against a backdrop of local government funding cuts that have seen councils...
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13 Dec 19
The worst performance figures for emergency departments since records began show the new government must act quickly to protect the service as winter advances.
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13 Dec 19
The government has announced major capital spending plans for the NHS in recent months, but will they offer a sufficient health boost? Alison Moore reports.
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12 Dec 19
The High Court has rejected a case brought by NHS hospital trusts in which they argued they should be handed business rates relief from councils worth £1.5bn.
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12 Dec 19
The number of homeless people in England attending A&E departments has more than trebled in the last eight years, figures have shown.
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10 Dec 19
Different methods of measuring hospital waiting times are hiding the scale of pressure on NHS emergency departments, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
11 Mar 20Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced plans to remove business rates for small businesses this year, as part of a £12bn package to tackle the economic impact of coronavirus.
10 Mar 20MPs have launched an inquiry to establish exactly how much more money the social care sector needs to drag itself out of its “longstanding crisis”.
9 Mar 20Health secretary Matt Hancock has written to MPs and peers asking for their views on adult social reforms, as the government attempts to reach a cross-party consensus.
5 Mar 20The £33.9bn NHS Long Term Plan did not include detailed plans to secure the workforce needed to deliver them, according to the National Audit Office.
4 Mar 20Almost half of councils overspent on their adult social care budget in 2018/19, while 82% of councils overspent exceeding their financial plans for children’s social care, according to research from...
26 Feb 20Auditors warn of “serious financial concerns” at one of the bodies responsible for planning health and social care services across Scotland.
25 Feb 20A decade of austerity is to blame for life expectancy in England stagnating for the first time in more than 100 years, according to a new report.
25 Feb 20Funding for local health watchdogs has reached the “bottom of the barrel” due to council funding struggles, the health secretary has been told.
19 Feb 20Government plans to scrap visas for low-skilled migrants have caused concern among health and social care groups, who say it will exacerbate workforce issues.
11 Feb 20The government must get to grips with fraud within the NHS which is costing £1.27bn a year, argues Matthew Jordan-Boyd of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority.
5 Feb 20The Centre for Public Scrutiny has started a review into the Royal College of Nursing’s governance and decision-making processes following errors in communicating a pay deal.
5 Feb 20Short-term financial fixes for NHS providers in England are failing to ensure the health service is able to keep up with rising demand, according to the spending watchdog.
4 Feb 20Almost a quarter of the population in the UK is exposed to dangerous levels of toxic particles in the air, a charity has claimed.
3 Feb 20The government has promised an extra £20m towards developing new vaccines for epidemics, including for three programmes aimed at immunising against the deadly coronavirus.
15 Jan 20There is no “viable replacement” for the NHS’s four-hour A&E target, a clinicians’ organisation has warned, following suggestions from the health secretary that the standard could be scrapped.
13 Jan 20Continued financial strain on the health service means councils and the NHS must work together to ensure every penny of funding is used effectively, writes research assistant at the Reform think-tank...
9 Jan 20One in four children in England referred to mental health services last year was rejected while some waited more than two months for treatment, analysis has found.
16 Dec 19Health and social care services in Scotland face a “very significant” challenge to their financial sustainability against a backdrop of local government funding cuts that have seen councils...
13 Dec 19The worst performance figures for emergency departments since records began show the new government must act quickly to protect the service as winter advances.
13 Dec 19The government has announced major capital spending plans for the NHS in recent months, but will they offer a sufficient health boost? Alison Moore reports.
12 Dec 19The High Court has rejected a case brought by NHS hospital trusts in which they argued they should be handed business rates relief from councils worth £1.5bn.
12 Dec 19The number of homeless people in England attending A&E departments has more than trebled in the last eight years, figures have shown.
10 Dec 19Different methods of measuring hospital waiting times are hiding the scale of pressure on NHS emergency departments, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
