The £1.8bn sustainability and transformation fund needs to be protected for providers beyond 2018/19 if the progress on reducing financial deficits is not to be put at risk, NHS Providers has warned.
Read more
The government must fund in full the cost of pay rises for NHS staff, now that it has lifted the 1% cap, the NHS Confederation said.
Read more
Hospital pathology services will be rearranged into 29 networks run on a hub and spoke model, under plans announced by NHS Improvement.
Read more
The cost of clinical negligence claims is rising faster than NHS funding year-on-year, adding to the financial pressures faced by trusts, the National Audit Office said.
Read more
NHS providers are forecasting a £523m year-end deficit after the first quarter of 2017/18, according to NHS Improvement figures.
Read more
NHS trusts ended the last financial year with a £3.7bn underlying overspend once one-off savings and funding is stripped out, according to the Nuffield Trust.
Read more
The NHS provider sector made significant progress in tackling agency spending in 2016/17 but now needs to ‘re-double its efforts’ to reduce spending to a sustainable level, NHS Improvement has said.
Read more
The Department of Health group underspent on its revenue budget in 2016/17 by more than £500m, according to its annual report and accounts.
Read more
The NHS needs to move to a framework of earned autonomy that works at the system level as well as incentivising individual organisations, NHS Improvement director of resources Bob Alexander told the HFMA Convergence conference in London.
Read more
The NHS is on the right track in moving to service delivery based around accountable care models, according to one of the world's most widely recognised integrated health systems.
Read more
Top stories archive
Publications
Example charity annual report and accounts 2016/17
17 October 2017
Briefing
Sustainability and transformation partnerships
12 October 2017
Briefing