When the effects of an accountancy change are removed, NHS providers ended the 2023-24 financial year £1.2bn overspent, doubling the level of overspend the previous year, after modest surpluses in ...

The fragile state of NHS provider finances has often been well publicised, even if those finances have not made quite the same headlines in the past few years. As Sally Gainsbury and Sophie Julian ...

After years of arbitrary and irrational cuts, today’s announcement of a 5.4% uplift to the Public Health Grant is a welcome move by government, backing up its promise to shift health care more into ...