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.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will get a pay rise now the government has accepted pay review body recommendations, but not funding that pay rise with extra money will mean 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 huge backlog of unaudited local government accounts has ramifications across government, including for entire departments and the NHS, the head of the NAO has warned.
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...
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.
Proposals to extend a temporary suspension on pension changes for workers returning to the NHS will do very little to tackle the staffing crisis in the sector, experts have warned.
The funding committed to social care bodies through Health and Social Care Levy, which went live today, is not enough to meet cost pressures and sector reforms, according to an expert.
