Britain’s favourite national institution is 70 in July. Alison Moore looks at whether the PM’s promise of a £20bn birthday present is enough to secure its future.
The recently announced £20bn a year NHS funding boost will not be enough to meet the needs of the UK’s growing and changing population, the head of the National Audit Office has told The Guardian.
The extra £20bn a year for the NHS is like “pouring water down a sink with no plug in” unless social care also receives a funding boost, council leaders and health groups have...
The British public have shown “overwhelming” support to increase annual spending on health and social care over the next 15 years, according to a poll released today.
A leading committee of MPs has pointed to a staggering 1.5 million avoidable A&E admissions as evidence of the government’s underfunding of preventative health care.
A major trade union has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed National Health Service pay offer, which it says merely continues cuts to wages in real terms.
NHS trusts in England ended the last financial year with a deficit of £960m - £464m above the projected deficit of £496m, a regulator’s report out today has shown.
Households in the UK would have to pay up to £2,000 a year extra to keep the NHS afloat as it copes with increased demand, a major report out today has warned.
A range of primary care services fell below acceptable standards because NHS England and Capita failed to understand the risks of outsourcing key back-office support services, the National Audit...
Hundreds of thousands of children in England will miss out on mental health support under the government’s plans to reform the service, a joint select committee has said.
NHS trusts still lack the resources and support from senior management to improve the healthcare complaints system, says chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs...
