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NHS providers in England are spending in excess of £1bn in buying care to meet growing demand, NHS Improvement figures show. Sending patients to private…

To celebrate 70 years of the NHS, Hallmark Hotels are offering all NHS employees free stays in 2018. The Hallmark portfolio spans across the country…

NHS Confederation leaders have written to new health secretary Matt Hancock urging him to “grasp the social care challenge”. NHS Confederation chair Stephen Dorrell, a…

The NHS has published guidance to help trusts work with bereaved families and carers. Over 70 families and carers worked with NHS England on the guidance…

More than four in five of us would be willing to pay more tax to secure significant improvements in the NHS, according to a new…

Responding to today’s 70th anniversary of the NHS, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “The NHS deserves recognition…

In celebration of the NHS’s 70th birthday this week, NHS Digital reveals seven statistics for seven decades. The figures demonstrate how the NHS has evolved…

The vanguard programme, one of NHS England’s attempts to better meet patients’ needs and deliver savings by developing new care models to integrate health and…

A new report has been published by the National Audit Office exploring developing new care models through NHS vanguards. It examines whether the NHS is…

A £10m a year fund will be boosted to £105m over three years to help deliver more joined up care closer to home and help…

Twelve councils have been chosen by NHS Digital and the Local Government Association to explore how technology could help shape the future of social care….

Robots at the bedside and “care-bots” in the home will transform the delivery of health and social care, report finds The NHS could free up…

Worried providers say social care has again been deprived of the funding lifeline it needs despite more shock evidence of r the crisis in social…