A survey by the Care Quality Commission found that people’s experiences of NHS mental health services provided in the community are poor.
The government has set out its guidance to support local authorities in administering the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund for 2024 to 2025.
GP leaders at the British Medical Association have written to NHS England to say they are entering into dispute.
Some 700,000 more workers will be living with major illness by 2040, according to a report from the Health Foundation.
The Commons Health and Social Care Committee was told this week that NHS managers need to be given more freedom to make local decisions and avoid a simple culture of compliance.
The new standard is effective from 2027 and is intended to standardise the presentation of profit.
Communicators must be supported to help their local communities access and have confidence in NHS services.
More than £9m is being made available in Scotland over the next three years to give those accessing social care more control over decisions relating to their care.
The Liberal Democrats highlighted two areas in which the party said the NHS needs urgent improvements.
Twelve hospices in Wales will share £4m in government funding to help them maintain services, meet staffing costs and improve the quality of end-of-life care.