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“After over a decade of constrained funding, NHS finances prior to this Budget were perilous. The funding promised today will meet the health service’s immediate day-to-day needs, but will not stretch ...

With all eyes on this week’s budget announcement, will social care be overlooked again? Natasha Curry and Camille Oung ...

After a public consultation was launched last week on the health service’s new 10-year-plan, Mark Dayan looks at what we can learn from previous NHS plans – as well as from other countries – to help ...

Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s latest State of Care Report, The state of health care and adult social care in ...

The drumbeat of pre-budget speculation is a familiar rhythm for the NHS. It is not unusual for the Treasury to want to leak out rumours of an NHS settlement early: at well over a third of total ...

The NHS in England is heading for an unfunded overspend of £4.8bn this financial year, meaning that next week the Chancellor will need to grow the overall health budget by at least 3.6% just to manage ...