Prices paid to providers for elective activity in 2024/25 will increase by 0.6% to account for inflation and improved efficiency.
The 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance, published by NHS England, has demanded improved A&E waiting times.
NHS England has published the planning guidance for 2024/25 – originally timetabled for release at the end of December.
The British Social Attitudes survey, published by the Nuffield Trust and The King's Fund, showed that only 24% of people in Great Britain were satisfied with the service offered by the NHS in 2023.
The Department of Health and Social Care has published the 2024/25 financial directions for NHS England setting out how NHS England’s budget is broken down for the year.
A new independent body should be set up to monitor NHS performance and to inform the setting of NHS budgets for the medium and long term.
NHS Providers has released a comprehensive report on how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can improve its approach to regulation.
The government has insisted it is committed to dental contract reform in an attempt to make NHS work more attractive to dentists.
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, when adjusted for population size and ageing, the NHS England budget will have decreased by 1.6% per year in real terms.
A report by The Health Foundation has found that NHS England’s budget for 2024/25 of £164.9bn is essentially flat in real terms compared with the previous year.