Health & Social Care

Civil servants think rank-and-file politicians need private briefings on Universal Credit implementation and other big changes 

Think tank says Theresa May’s multi-billion-pound pledges will be unsustainable without a realistic plan for raising the cash

Chancellor Philip Hammond told Cabinet ministers health boost was “extraordinary” one-off outside usual spending review process

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency leaves Westminster for Canary Wharf

Ex-Labour health minister Ara Darzi also proposes creation of "single NHS headquarters" to report to Department of Health and Social Care 

Carers' charter and carer’s passport launched across civil service

Policy profession head wants to emulate overseas governments where officials are better educated

Council chief execs also offered cap-busting rise, bagging same 2% deal offered to rank-and-file staff

Leslie Evans reveals that Edinburgh administration has made contact with Welsh Government colleagues for an update on the scheme

NAO criticises failure of both parties to recognise complexity of contract to simultaneously run and cut primary care support services

Mental health first aid can save lives and support better mental wellbeing, but it’s not just a case of training staff and hoping for the best. Kath Cheer and Paul Horsman advise on building structures that help mental health first aiders to support their colleagues

Staff welcome weekly window for healthy activities agreed in deal with civil service unions

Internal inquiry underway after drugs found in secure area of department

The National Health Service is sitting on a goldmine of patient information, but identifying how best to tap its rich seams is very much a work in progress. SA Mathieson reports. Photography by Paul Heartfield

NHS bosses say Indian doctors are being denied visas to work in the UK because of ‘hostile environment’

Report by former health minister comes as Jeremy Hunt’s call for a long-term settlement for the NHS gains traction

MPs criticise department for not knowing where to spend £7bn pump-priming cashpot

ONS outlines work streams to expand measurements of loneliness and wellbeing inequality

Health department propping up the figures on ethnic diversity at senior levels, IfG analysis finds

Possibility of ten-year funding deal, hinted at in session with MPs, described as “the best possible Easter present for the health and social care system”

Unprecedented report makes demands of six departments and calls for better oversight to ‘prevent policy from working at cross-purposes’

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

Damning report finds no evidence of department-driven workforce planning for sector since Gordon Brown was prime minister

New data shows dip in proportion of staff who went 12 months without taking time off because of ill health