Dave West

Ministers will look at how much can be saved from NHS budgets by improving adult social care before increasing taxes to fund the reforms, Andy Burnham has said.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West

A leading hospital chief executive has championed in-house NHS technology that costs "a fraction" of major commercial systems - and said she does not use the federated data platform.

Hospital discharge delays hit their highest level on record in July.

NHS financial pressures and reforms have brought about the end of one of the largest local joint health and social care funding arrangements.

Ministers and officials could move thousands of NHS England staff - including regional teams - into a separate national agency, rather than into the Department of Health and Social Care, when NHSE is abolished next year, HSJ has learned.

Ministers and officials are considering whether to keep some NHS England functions and staff - including regional teams - separate from the Department of Health and Social Care, when NHSE is abolished next year, HSJ has learned.

Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week, by deputy editor Dave West

Ministers have indicated they will amend the Health Bill in the Lords to preserve an independent local voice for patients and care users.

Ten fewer trusts are in the top segment of NHS England's oversight framework, in the first results under revised rules that have raised the bar for the highest rating.