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Integration of health and social care must be done at a local level if it is to succeed, according to an influential report into...

The British Medical Association (BMA) rejected the government’s final offer on the the NHS final salary pension scheme after surveying doctors and medical students.The...

Hospitals delivering private acute healthcare services must meet the challenges of a static market going forward following an absence of real spending growth in...

The NHS continues to report a healthy aggregate surplus, with strategic health authorities (SHAs) and primary care trusts (PCTs) forecasting a combined surplus of...

Alpha Hospital Sheffield was forced to develop its standards of quality and safety last year after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection found that...

The Department of Health has given local authorities a £150m New Year present to solve the current bed blocking crisis.At the same time, health...

Circle, the private sector company has moved in to take over the Hinchingbrooke Hospital. It will become the first ever non state provider to deliver...

Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for health, hit out at the health select committee’s report into NHS reform calling it unfair and out of date’. The health select committee report, which was published late last month, laid out some stiff criticism of the planned reforms. The report warned that hospitals would be forced into short term salami-slicing’ as they scrambled to save £20bn by 2015.

The amount of extra cash the government plans to spend on the NHS has increased by £610m.The suggestion follows the Office for Budgetary Responsibility’s...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a formal warning to Cygnet Health Care Limited that it must make urgent improvements to standards of...