Reforms of the National Health Service have led to improvements in its management but significant benefits for patients will take longer to deliver, according to the Audit Commission and the Healthcare Commission. They have today jointly published “Is the treatment working? progress with the NHS system reform programme”.

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The Government is to take steps to improve the way it measures the impact of migration on local populations. It is one of a series of measures set out by the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears to maximise the benefits and minimise the negative impacts of migration.

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This analysis was sponsored by the Resolution Foundation and carried out by Deloitte & Touche LLP. It describes long-term care in England as a ‘mixed market’, made up of a combination of public and private funding and supply.

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