GP leaders have claimed GPs are missing out on funding necessary to improve their buildings because local NHS managers are failing to collect money owed from property developers.

Inspectors are warning that safety across the NHS and care sector, with particular problems in hospitals, is a ‘significant concern’.

The General Medial Council (GMC) has introduced a range of fees and increased charges, which will particularly affect international medical graduates and GPs, in an effort to generate £2.4 million in savings.

A fifth of children referred to specialist mental health treatment in the NHS are rejected treatment, according to research from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).

GPs have been told they must find £1 million of extra savings on prescribing costs after a clinical commissioning group overspent by millions in secondary care.

In a move to avoid strike action, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has reassured junior doctors that their pay will not be cut and that standard working hours will not be altered under new contracts.

Simon Stevens, NHS England Chief Executive, has urged the government to rethink the immigration rules that will see lower-earning nurses from outside the EU deported, despite the significant shortage in the profession.

The latest figures reveal the NHS acute sector is continuing to forcecast a deficit in excess of £2 billion for the current financial year. The financial performance of Trusts’ year to date has been calculated as even worse than initially planned.