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Move to bring number of full-time government staff working in Whitehall down from 95,000 to about 83,000Major Whitehall government buildings are to be shut by ministers as they seek to shed 12,000 civil servant jobs in London, while moving thousands of…
Jim Mackey says state of public finances means country can no longer afford big spending risesMinisters have “maxed out” the amount of money they can give the NHS and it must learn to live with smaller annual budget rises, the health service’s new boss…
Trusts having to ‘think the previously unthinkable’ to make savings demanded by new NHS England bossHospitals in England are cutting staff, closing services and planning to ration care in order to make “eye-watering” savings demanded by NHS bosses.Reha…
‘Shocking blind spot’ in data collection comes despite ‘well-documented racial disparities in maternity care’The NHS is facing criticism for not recording the ethnicity of people who sue it over poor maternity care, despite black, Asian and minority et…
Department previously investigated only 50% of earnings limit alerts, meaning many carers fell into debtUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters have announced an overhaul of the way carer’s allowance overpayments are checked in an attempt to fix the…
Another 900 staff will be transferred to other Whitehall departments for ‘leaner and more focused’ state administrationUK politics live – latest updatesThe Cabinet Office will shrink in size by about a third, with about 1,200 jobs to go and another 900…
Investigators find coordination failures between NHS and care bodies causing delays, distress and burnout Navigating England’s “complex” health and care system is “extremely difficult” and carers and patients are experiencing burnout, distress and harm…
Damning report by public accounts committee finds some of Tory government’s initiatives have worsened the crisisThe official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiativ…
In today’s newsletter: How a dubious ‘scandal’ about the scheme to help people with serious disabilities get a car made its way into the mainstream Good morning. Motability really ought to be a boring subject. A government scheme designed to help peop…
‘You can’t cut your way to growth,’ says PCS head as Reeves confirms move to cut administrative costs by 15% by 2030Rachel Reeves’s planned cuts of £2bn to government departments will hit frontline services from jobcentres to HMRC phone lines and effor…