Mental illness in England is costing £300bn a year – almost twice the amount spent on the NHS, new research has claimed.
Just half of a sample of integrated care boards treated dedicated health inequalities funding as ringfenced in 2022/23.
Further concerns have been raised about the productivity assumptions included in NHS England’s long-term workforce plan.
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.
The government has insisted it is committed to dental contract reform in an attempt to make NHS work more attractive to dentists.
The government has fallen short on its promise to fix the crisis in adult social care, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee.
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.
All NHS bodies will go into this year’s final accounts process with an auditor in place, NHS England CFO Julian Kelly told MPs this week.
A capital incentive scheme that aims to boost A&E performance has been labelled as divisive by healthcare leaders.
ICB chief finance officer Paul Brown took part in an HFMA study tour to Australia to get a new perspective on joining up services.