CIPFA’s Sarah Sheen and ICAEW’s Oliver Simms explain how working in local audit brings substantial benefits, including the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives.
The government’s announcement that it will remove bespoke Covid-19 funding could reduce councils' capacity to respond to new pandemic outbreaks, according to sector leaders.
The government is set to issue new guidance and amend legislation to enable further pooling of NHS and healthcare budgets, in a bid to improve integration.
The government has told NHS England to give private hospitals up to £270m before the end of March as part of an arrangement that does not necessarily mean they will treat any NHS patients.
Staff shortages in the NHS and social care pose the “biggest risk to post-pandemic recovery” and health service funding needs to grow twice as fast as it has in the past decade, research has...
Health services in England will receive billions more in funding for the remainder of 2021-22 to help meet Covid-19 costs, but service leaders have warned of “one of the most challenging winters”...
Proposals to better integrate health care rely on the NHS being adequately funded in the forthcoming Spending Review, says Amelia Chong, policy advisor for finances and specialised services at...
The government’s Health and Care Bill will give more power for the health secretary to intervene in the running of health services in England and less local oversight, according...
With change afoot for integrated health systems, Jonathan Webb, lead director of finance for West Yorkshire and Harrogate’s partnership, explains the recipe for creating successful working.
The health service and local government both need long-term financial sustainability if the government is to successfully respond to the next national emergency, the National Audit Office has...
The London Borough of Newham has approved plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the next three years to regenerate and add to its housing stock.
The government needs to commit £102bn of additional NHS and social care funding over the next decade to improve health equality post-Covid-19, medical experts have said.
Former prime minister David Cameron lobbied the government to adopt a scheme to convert NHS pay into bonds on behalf of now-insolvent firm Greensill Capital, according to a report.
Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.
The government is considering an overhaul of the healthcare system which would put partnerships between councils and the NHS onto a statutory footing, a leaked document reveals.
The NHS will need to continue to derive value from costly infrastructure investments made during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers.
A care leader has voiced disappointment that a government pledge of £300m to help the NHS prepare for winter has not been matched by similar funding for care homes.
Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s has downgraded the credit rating of an NHS hospital Private Finance Initiative company after identifying “strained relationships” with its commissioning trust.
The government has announced £3bn of extra funding for the NHS in England to deal with an upcoming “perfect storm” that threatens to tip the health service over capacity.
The Department for Health and Social Care needs to devise a capital strategy to address backlog in NHS maintenance work post-Covid-19, a report from the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
An increase to taxes and making more people eligible for free care will not be enough to fix the social care system, which is “unfit for purpose”, a report from think-tank the Adam Smith Institute...
Covid-19 has exposed problems in health and care systems, and we need to re-think how we view efficiency in the NHS, argues the Health Foundation’s Anita Charlesworth.
Short-term deficit fixes have made some parts of the NHS financially unsustainable, and new proposals to restructure and write off debt are only part of the solution, argues the Healthcare...
