Additional funding to maintain and improve the NHS estate would play an important role in improving performance and productivity and stop staff working around a huge backlog, researchers have said.
NHS Wales spending on agency staff continued to rise last year as health boards struggled to recruit and retain staff, the nation’s spending watchdog has said.
Rising care demands and tightening budgets risk reducing the quality of Welsh care and ministers must have honest conversations over the future of healthcare, a service leader has said.
The High Court has rejected a hospital trust’s request for a judicial review of three councils’ refusal to make a developer pay nearly £2m to offset increased demand for services.
Plans to boost long-term recruitment into the NHS have been broadly welcomed, but could be at risk due to expensive temporary staffing arrangements, experts have said.
“Substantial underinvestment” in an ageing NHS estate has worsened care backlogs and left healthcare services worse than other developed countries, experts have warned.
The fall in productivity since the onset of Covid-19 has meant the NHS has been unable to “secure the full benefits” of increased spending and staff numbers, the National Audit Office has warned.
English councils have welcomed a government pledge to fully fund a pay rise for NHS contracted services this year, which council leaders said will safeguard community healthcare.
Welsh ministers have tabled an improved pay offer for health staff in a bid to end ongoing strike action, having “drawn on reserves and underspends from across government” to find the money to...
Integrated care systems should finance and procurement experts earlier in the planning process if they want to maximise their chances of improving services and using their resources...
The economy would benefit by billions of pounds per year if healthcare waiting lists are reduced in line with government plans, but doing so will be impossible without investment in the social care...
Government plans to join up healthcare services will fail unless long-term issues over funding disparity between the NHS and social care are fixed, MPs have warned.
As Britain faces a winter of discontent, the NHS is looking more like a war zone, but the current recovery plans are little more than a sticking plaster.
Government plans to increase the number of hospital beds and ambulances to meet the growing care demands being placed on the NHS will depend on a long-term workforce plan, an expert has said.
Sustained long-term investment in community and social care is the key to managing NHS pressures, despite new government funding to speed up hospital discharging, experts have warned.
“Unbearable” overlapping crises in the NHS will lead to more hospitals declaring critical incidents, health leaders have warned, as unions call on the government to get a grip on workforce issues.
Scottish health services will remain free at the point of need despite several senior officials discussing making richer patients pay for treatment, the health secretary has insisted.
