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NewsAndy Burnham makes no promises over NHS cuts
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said his focus is on protecting the frontline, but could not promise health services would be ringfenced from expected spending cuts.
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Budget shortfall prompts NHS staffing freeze
A £30m budget gap may force one of the biggest NHS trusts in Wales to cut back on beds and reduce the number of agency staff drafted in to fill full-time vacancies.
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NewsNHS hospital equipment 'under-used' - Taxpayers' Alliance
Hospitals are failing to make use of sophisticated and expensive treatment technology, the Taxpayers’ Alliance has claimed.
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NewsScottish health inequalities persist despite rise in life expectancy
Scottish public health minister Shona Robison has said there are still “unacceptable inequalities” between different areas of Scotland, despite new figures showing life expectancy in the country has increased.
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NewsPublic spending cuts 'not black and white' - Alistair Darling
Frontline services can be protected despite the need to make “difficult choices” on public spending cuts, the Chancellor has said.
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NewsNHS job cut warning: a 1 per cent pay increase equals 10,000 jobs
Senior NHS managers have called for a pay freeze from 2011 together with a “fundamental review” of staff terms and conditions in the face of expected financial constraints.
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NewsAndy Burnham’s preferred bidder pledge questioned
Questions have been raised over the implications for competition and world class commissioning of health secretary Andy Burnham’s statement that the NHS is the “preferred provider” of services.
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NewsNHS South Central chief promises organisational change will be 'last resort'
Organisational change will be a “last resort” for those in the South Central region placed “under review” by the Department of Health, the strategic health authority’s new chief executive has pledged.
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NewsNurses urged to show savings
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is to calculate and publish “opportunity savings” in 10 changes to the way nurses work.
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NewsPatient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?
The health secretary’s promise of a greater focus on patient experience has the approval of NHS leaders - as long as it is done properly, reports Rebecca Evans
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News'No evidence of increase in autism rates'
At least one in every 100 adults has a form of autism but rates of the condition are not on the rise, NHS research has revealed.
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NewsNICE approves stomach tumour treatment
Sunitinib has been recommended by NICE for gastro-intestinal stromal tumours after a pricing deal with maker Pfizer.
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NewsWorld class commissioning: efficiency made a core competency
Assessing how effectively NHS commissioners spend their funding receives greater importance in the latest government guidance on world class commissioning.
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Expand measles and hepatitis B vaccination programmes, NICE urges
NHS vaccination programmes against measles and hepatitis B in the under-19 age group must be expanded, says the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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NewsSHAs seek control of senior managers' pay, MiP claims
Some strategic health authorities will try to dictate the pay of senior managers on their patch despite new guidance, their union has warned.
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NewsRose Gibb wins right to appeal judgement on Maidstone pay-out
Former Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust chief executive Rose Gibb has won the right to continue her battle for a severance package.
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NewsNHS 'must decentralise'
The NHS must be decentralised and freed from government control if it is to thrive, according to think tank Demos.
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NHS 'not ready for budget cuts'
At least 84 per cent of NHS financial directors are ill-prepared for the cost cutting programme the government has embarked on, a study has claimed.
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NewsNHS information handling must improve - CQC
NHS organisations have been urged by the Care Quality Commission to improve the way they use patient records.
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NewsNHS Manchester re-appoints non-executive director
NHS Manchester has announced that Brian Harrison has been re-appointed as a non-executive director for another four years.