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DHSC

NHS dissatisfaction hits record levels

By Lee Peart 02 April 2025

NHS dissatisfaction levels have hit record levels with just one in five people (21%) content with services.

NUFFIELD TRUST

NHS dissatisfaction hits record levels

By Lee Peart 02 April 2025

NHS dissatisfaction levels have hit record levels with just one in five people (21%) content with services.

PRIMARY CARE

Call for NHS shift to out of hospital services

By Lee Peart 28 March 2025

The Government has been called upon to shift NHS funding towards primary and community services and overhaul existing hospital-focused performance targets.

Benefit cuts four times larger than planned by previous Government

By Lee Peart 27 March 2025

Disability and health-related benefit cuts by Labour are four times greater than those planned by the previous Government, according to new analysis.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Think-tank calls for 'radical health devolution'

By Lee Peart 25 March 2025

A think-tank has called for radical health devolution as a precursor to building a Neighbourhood Health Service.

NAO

NHSE failed to meet all 2022 elective care targets, finds NAO

By Lee Peart 24 March 2025

NHSE has failed to meet all its February 2022 targets on elective care waiting times, a report has found.

PROCUREMENT

Open and transparent

By Liz Wells 24 March 2025

NHS procurement organisations discuss how things are going since the Procurement Act 2023 went live a month ago, changing the way that goods, works and services are procured by the public sector

WORKFORCE

NHS 'over relies' on workers from red list countries

By Liz Wells 21 March 2025

The NHS in England is increasingly relying on workers from countries with significant healthcare staffing shortages since EU recruitment became more difficult post-Brexit, new research reveals.

IFS

Government likely to miss 18-week target, says IFS

By Lee Peart 19 March 2025

The Government is ‘unlikely’ to meet its key end of Parliament target of 92% people waiting less than 18 weeks for NHS treatment, new analysis has found.

IFS

Worsening mental health driving health-related benefits, says IFS

By Lee Peart 12 March 2025

Mental health has worsened since the pandemic and is a key driver of higher health related benefit claims, according to an IFS report funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and The Health Foundat...