A clear road ahead: Creating a coherent quality strategy for the English NHS
Every health system should have a strategic and coordinated approach for delivering high quality health services within finite resources. Through … Read more
NHS spending
Deficits in the NHS 2016: A King’s Fund Report
Unaudited figures indicate that NHS commissioners (clinical commissioning groups and NHS England) and providers in aggregate ended 2015/16 in deficit … Read more
NHS finance chiefs warn of poorer care and longer waiting times
NHS finance managers warn today that patients are set to experience poorer care, longer waiting times for treatment and greater … Read more
BMA’s appeal for boost in NHS funding rejected by David Cameron
David Cameron has rejected an appeal to give the NHS more money based on the leave campaign’s pledge to put … Read more
NHS Bill to get its 10 Minutes – 13 July
The NHS Bill will get a brief presence in parliament this month. Margaret Greenwood MP has now secured a Ten Minute … Read more
Five big issues for health and social care after the Brexit vote
Helen McKenna of the Kings Fund writes : Health is not an area of significant EU competence; its role is … Read more
Exclusive: Paybills and planned care targeted in huge savings drive
NHS trusts have been given a month to produce plans for merging back-office and pathology services with their neighbours, as … Read more
Government cuts are brewing a sexual health crisis
Sex has got a lot to answer for. The UK is facing a rising demand for sexual health and contraceptive … Read more
Iain Duncan Smith backtracks on leave side’s £350m NHS claim
Leading Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith has distanced himself from a pledge by the official leave campaign to spend £350m … Read more
What does Brexit mean for NHS funding?
The vote for Brexit and the economic and political turbulence that attends it have ushered in a period of huge … Read more