The reform, launched under the banner “liberating the NHS”, rests on some familiar ideas. Commissioning GPs and increasing provider competition were seen as ways to improve the quality and efficiency ...

Government reforms of the NHS in England have come into force and health leaders warn of a tough year ahead. Monday marks the first day of the new structures. GP-led groups have taken control of local ...

The National Health Service (NHS) has 1.7 million workers across the UK – with one million patients every 36 hours, generating vast amounts of sensitive data. They are the fifth largest employer in ...

THE governance structure of the NHS in Scotland is not fit for purpose. The scandal of the new, but flawed, Edinburgh children’s hospital has produced demands for the resignation of the Cabinet ...

The traditional model of hospital care needs to be changed to provide the best care, the health secretary says. Patricia Hewitt said the district general hospital model, providing a wide range of care ...

A separate pay structure exclusively for nurses is being explored in what could be a major shake-up of the NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) system in England. Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ ...

This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. If only one or two parts of health and social care were in a bad way, perhaps fixing it would not be such a fraught task. But ...

The needless deaths of hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Portsmouth could hardly be more disturbing. The essential compassionate basis of healthcare appears to have been ignored ...

The School of Nursing and Health Studies underwent a major operation this January, breaking down their organizational structure into academic departments. Associate Dean Michael Bergin reported that ...