Health service watchdog Monitor has announced it is to tighten its processes for awarding hospitals foundation trust status after a review called on it to strengthen its approach, including to...
Many finance chiefs have signed the Finance Director Declaration to show their commitment to NHS Future-Focused Finance. How has it affected their work and teams?
Industrial action by junior doctors planned for next week has been suspended following “early progress” in talks with government over new contract terms, the British Medical Association...
Talks to avert further strikes by junior doctors are set to take place tomorrow following the end of a day of action where only emergency care was provided.
Two former health secretaries and the former Liberal Democrat care minister Norman Lamb have issued a joint call for a cross-party commission into the health and social care crisis.
Junior doctors in England are to take strike action starting next Tuesday after talks with NHS Employers to resolve a dispute over new contractual terms broke down.
Health devolution pilots for London boroughs are a step in the right direction but communities must be involved to develop effective and robust services that can meet people’s needs.
Constraints on consultancy spending in the NHS saved £42m in the third quarter of 2015 and restrictions on agency staff could reduce costs by £160m by the end of the financial year, NHS...
All small hospitals in England are set to run a deficit in 2015/16, the first time that every provider with turnovers of under £200m a year will be in the red, an analysis by EY has found.
Current levels of uncertainty across the NHS are unprecedented. As the dust settles on the Spending Review, the challenge for the finance community is to find a way to meet short-term financial...
Nearly half of the £3.8bn funding increase for the NHS next year is being ringfenced in a sustainability and transformation fund intended to improve the financial health of the service.
The financial health of NHS hospital trusts has “significantly declined” in the last year and is expected to worsen further to the end of 2015/16, the National Audit Office warned today.
NHS devolution pilots for London will see boroughs in the capital test new approaches to physical and mental health collaboration, including full health and social care integration in Hackney.
Ongoing uncertainty over social care funding has the potential to derail efforts to get the NHS’s finances back into balance, the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s policy director has...
The next financial year is a “firebreak” year for the NHS in which it must get itself back into balance, the service’s finance managers have been told.
The NHS ombudsman has found that poor complaint handling in the health service mean that problems with care are not being uncovered in hospital investigations into avoidable harm or death.
Plans to integrate health and social care provision in Scotland face significant risks that must be addressed if the reform is to improve how services are delivered, a report has found.
The junior doctors’ strike, set to go ahead in England today, has been called off after the British Medical Association said agreement had been reached to resume negotiations over contract...
Nine in ten nurses have said they would not have gone into the profession without the bursaries the government plans to scrap in 2017, a Unison survey has found.
There is growing dissatisfaction with access to GP surgeries, while age, ethnicity and where a patient lives can bear heavily on their ability to get an appointment, the National Audit Office has...
A £3.8bn increase to the NHS budget next year will give the health service “a fighting chance” of implementing the Five Year Forward View reform plan, experts have said.
Facts and figures from the December 2015 edition of Public Finance magazine, including pay growth, Bank of England forecasts, international health provision, student satisfaction, and refugee numbers.
The Future-Focused Finance initiative has piloted a toolkit to help clinical and financial teams in the NHS build stronger working relationships and identify shared priorities
