Work to address health inequalities in waiting lists must be funded from core budgets rather than on an ad hoc basis.
The government has allocated £70m for stop smoking services and support in every local authority in England – more than double the current funding available.
This forum is designed as an update on NHS finance current priorities covering the roles of NHS chairs and non-executive directors.
A new report from The King’s Fund finds that people from the most deprived areas in England are more likely to have long waits for planned hospital care than people from less deprived areas.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has licensed Anastrozole, which has for years been used as a breast cancer treatment, as a preventive option in England.
The rapid roll-out of blood-thinning drugs on the NHS has saved some 4,000 lives and prevented almost 17,000 strokes, according to NHS England.
Four chief finance officers make up this year’s shortlist for the HFMA Finance Director of the Year Award in the 2023 HFMA awards.
More than a third of nurses who retired two years ago had returned to practice 12 months later, according to NHS England figures.
The Care Quality Commission has released its latest annual assessment of health and adult social care in England.
The prevalence of primary school children living with obesity continued to fall in 2022/23, after reaching the highest recorded levels during the Covid-19 pandemic.