Interserve picked up more than £700m of new work in the first quarter of 2013, according to an interim management statement covering the period from 1 January to 15 May.

The Dementia Challenge champion groups have produced areport on their progress since the challenge was launched in March 2012, which describes achievements in the three core areas of the challenge: driving improvements in health and care, creating dementia friendly communities andbetter research.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new £260m fund for hospitals, in response to the Francis report’s calling to make better use of technology to improve safe, effective care within the NHS.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says a £260m project to make the NHS all digital is aimed at reducing the number of paper blunders, with the development of electronic prescription and patient systems enabling medics across departments to access patient information quickly and easily.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB), has announced it has a record £440m war chest to stimulate and support business-led innovation across the country, domain-b reports.

Officials have called for "fundamental change" in the way emergency care systems are run, following a report by the College of Emergency Medicine that says A&E units are grappling with “unsustainable workloads” and lack of staff.

Public Health Minister Anna Soubry has announced that £10m will be put toward delivering better care for homeless once they leave hospital.

The NHS 111 helpline, designed for people with urgent but non-life threatening health problems, is failing to meet targets, a raft of media reports say.

The Department of Health has reaffirmed that NHS treatment will remain free at the point of delivery and available according to clinical need.

The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) annual inpatient survey, which covers the experiences ofmore than 64,500 people admitted to NHS hospitals in England in 2012, shows a far more positive picture of the health system than media coverage would suggest, The Guardian reports.

While healthcare facilities are included in the UK's terrorism contingency plans, a new study by researchers at the Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow University, warns that hospitals are also potential targets for malevolent actions.

Carillion has been awarded the contract to build the new £429m Royal Liverpool Hospital, which will be located adjacent to the current hospital building and facing the same direction, the Liverpool Daily Post reports

The interim chief operating officer for NHS England has said that organisations providing the 111 telephone services could have their contracts revoked if they continue to fall below expected standards, the BBC reports.

NHS Blood and Transplant chief executive Lynda Hamlyn said the unit is not being privatised and is not included in recent changes in health legislation.

A scrutiny committee says poor accounting practices hid a huge deficit at Croydon Primary Care Trust and prevented it from being found sooner, The Telegraph reports.