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Fewer nurses are expected to be trained in specialist and advanced roles in the NHS over the coming years due to the “decimation” of professional development funding, a group of MPs has been warned during an inquiry into nursing workforce shortages. The reduction in the NHS national budget for...

Hospitals are charging visitors and staff “extortionate” rates to park on site, it has been claimed, as The Yorkshire Post today reveals the fees that have become a multi-million-pound source of income for health bosses. Hospital chiefs have said that while the numbers seem high, the funds are...

The chief executive of the NHS has warned that cancer and mental health care could deteriorate because ministers are not prepared to give the health service billions of extra funding in the forthcoming budget. Simon Stevens said that the waiting list for hospital operations could hit 5 million...

The NHS should receive the funds promised to it during the EU referendum, the head of the health service in England is expected to say. Simon Stevens, who is considered a moderate voice, will make an unusually direct address to the Government at a conference in Birmingham by citing a key pledge...

Cash-strapped health bosses are spending about £170,000 a month because of “bed-blocking” involving older patients in Dundee. Figures released by the health board through a freedom of information request show that between January last year and September 2017, £3.572 million costs were incurred...

Unless you work in the NHS itself, or inhabit the health policy bubble of academics, thinktanks and staff groups, chances are the phrase “accountable care organisations” means little. If so, you would be forgiven for not knowing that ACOs, their acronym in NHS speak, and their close relation...

Britain should increase NHS spending and follow the Germans who pay out £900 more per head, health service leaders say. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, called for a cash injection to get the the health service out of “the red zone” - warning it was heading back to the poor...

NHS staff in England are working on the "edge of safety" as rising demand is outstripping the increasing numbers being employed, health bosses say. There are now 6% more staff than there were three years ago, but demand for services has risen by three times as much in some areas. NHS...

A 24-hour service has been launched for NHS patients, offering GP consultations via videolink on smartphones. The pilot scheme will initially cover 3.5 million patients in Fulham, west London. Patients will be able to check their symptoms through the mobile app and then have video...

The decline in EU nurses and midwives wanting to work in the UK since the referendum is continuing, figures show. The trend was first noticed earlier this year, and now a new batch of figures released by the Nursing and Midwifery Council have reinforced the idea that Brexit is having an impact...

More will be done to protect the NHS in England from "despicable" acts of fraud, the head of the health service's new anti-fraud body has said. Sue Frith promised a crackdown as she released figures suggesting the yearly bill for fraud in the NHS topped £1bn. Cases include patients falsely...

The head of the NHS has rejected Jeremy Hunt’s insistence that its staff’s pay rise next year should depend on them improving their productivity as “an own goal of the first magnitude”. Simon Stevens’s remarks set him on a collision course with the health secretary weeks before the budget, in...

The idea of NHS hospital patients recuperating in Airbnb-style accommodation has not been ruled out, health minister Philip Dunne has said. Southend Hospital had been linked to a trial where hospital patients could be discharged to people's spare rooms. The hospital distanced itself from the...

A million more patients could face waits of more than four hours in NHS A&E wards in England by 2019-20 in the absence of urgent action to address rising demand, the British Medical Association has said. Analysis by the doctors’ union, shared exclusively with the Guardian, projects that the...

The NHS could have avoided the crippling effects of the “relatively unsophisticated” WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May with “basic IT security”, according to an independent investigation into the cyberattack. The National Audit Office said that 19,500 medical appointments were cancelled...

Patients recovering from surgery could be discharged from hospital to recuperate in private houses nearby as part of an NHS trial that could earn those renting out the rooms up to £1,000 a month. The scheme, which is being piloted in Essex, aims to tackle bed shortages and save money but has...

Changes to the way assaults on NHS staff are recorded have been criticised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The RCN expressed concern that the Government intends to rely on an annual survey that health service workers complete on an optional basis for information, rather than replace the...

The proportion of EU nationals leaving jobs in the NHS is rising, while the share of those joining is shrinking. The BBC analysed NHS Digital figures, which showed the trend in England over the past two-and-a-half years. Health experts say the UK's decision to leave the European Union in June...

Supersized chocolate bars and “grab bags” of sweets are to be banned from hospitals as the NHS ratchets up its fight against obesity. Simon Stevens, the NHS chief executive, has warned that obesity will bankrupt the health service and has stated his determination to do what he can on hospital...

North Korea was behind the devastating WannaCry ransomware attack that temporarily crippled dozens of NHS trusts, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith said “all observers in the know” now believe Kim Jong-un’s regime stole the technology needed to create the exploit from the US’...