Public spending is set to increase from 2019/20, bringing austerity to an end a year earlier than planned, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget.
Nearly a million public sector workers are to receive average pay increases of 1% in 2015/16, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has confirmed.
As the dust settles on the chancellor’s Autumn Statement, this is a good time to review what it told us. It contained three big messages: one on money, one on reform, and one on social care.
The NHS is in a financially unsustainable position following a deterioration over the last two financial years, the National Audit Office has concluded.
General practice is in need of both more money and significant reform if it is to meet the challenge set out by NHS England in its Five Year Forward View, according to the Nuffield Trust.
As NHS staff ballot on industrial action – and discontent rises over pay and salary progression throughout the public sector – years of severe pay restraint are taking their toll
Trade union Unison has welcomed the announcement from the European Commission that health services will not be included in a proposed trans-Atlantic trade deal, which could have increased competition...
The regulator is getting tough with charities in England and Wales that file their accounts late. John Maddocks looks at the importance of transparency and new best practice for trustees due this year
Doctors’ leaders have urged Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to reconsider his decision to not offer an annual pay increase to those NHS staff in line for higher wages through job progression
The government's full response to the Francis inquiry report into Mid Staffs contains many welcome proposals. But squaring the quality and finance agendas is going to prove tough
Changes to the NHS and local authority landscape present new opportunities to tackle physical inactivity. This needs to be reflected in public health policy-making
With only a 'handful' of NHS trusts likely to meet new data requirements from April 2014, it's time for action. Trusts need the necessary data at their disposal if they are to avoid...
It's not the easiest time to be running the finances of an NHS hospital but Chelsea & Westminster FD Lorraine Bewes says the prognosis is good. She tells PF how the foundation trust is...
