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”.
It looks at the market-style reforms of the NHS, set out first in 2000 and designed to improve efficiency. 

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. 

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.
There is a widespread expectation that care provision is an integral part of the welfare state, but the reality is that long-term care is now almost entirely provided through private and third sector suppliers, and increasingly, is funded through private means.