The government must replace the £1bn that it “catastrophically ripped out” of nursing higher education, the head of the Royal College of Nursing will say.
Extra pressure could be placed on the NHS as doctors reduce their workloads because of tax charged on pension contributions, according to the British Medical Association.
Delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan is threatened by a “worrying level of disparity” in the financial performance of local health bodies, MPs have warned.
Can an integrated approach to how NHS organisations work – both with each other and local authorities – help it to better manage income and demand for services? Alison Moore reports.
Bodies commissioning health services must improve their performance as they start to cover wider areas as part of the NHS ten-year plan, a group of MPs has said.
Hospitals could carry out more than 290,000 extra routine operations each year if they improved the way they schedule surgeries, according to a health watchdog.
