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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

As Theresa May announces a £20bn investment in the NHS, Bronwen Maddox calls for better planning to avoid the cycles of crisis and emergency funding in health

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 

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

Disclosure and Barring Service modernisation programme is four years late and likely to cost £229m more than planned say MPs

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

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

Call for evidence from independent inspector comes as department plays key role in cross-Whitehall preparations for Brexit

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”

Report highlights warnings of a ‘crisis-driven’ approach of local authorities increasingly focus on providing core statutory social services

Civil service unions urge politicians to give workers same rights to fair pay that they enjoy

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

David Sterling tells MPs he finds it “unacceptable” that Northern Ireland has had no executive for a year

Prime minister announces rebranded Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department of Health and Social Care 

Harlow Council planners approve blueprint for science campus

Commons committee concludes DoH and NHS England did not do enough to determine whether patients were harmed by correspondence backlog