All Budget 2009 articles – Page 2
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NewsNHS productivity is rising
NHS productivity has improved, with the growth in the quality and volume of treatment now exceeding the increase in NHS funding.
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CommentKen Jarrold on the NHS and the credit crunch
These are dangerous times for public servants. The recession is having a devastating impact on the lives and life chances of many employed in the private sector. In contrast, relatively few public servants are losing their jobs.
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News
DH says NHS can save money and improve patient safety
The NHS is in a position to make “significant” efficiency savings without compromising patient safety, according to a senior Department of Health economist.
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NewsCrunch time: coming to terms with NHS funding cuts
Public sector spending projections raise the spectre of real terms cuts from 2011. Sally Gainsbury dissects the figures and looks at the options for the NHS as growth makes way for austerity
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NewsBudget puts pressure on DH central pot
The NHS’s £2.3bn contribution to the Treasury’s £5bn of planned spending cuts in 2010-11 leaves the Department of Health’s central budgets under pressure, HSJ understands.
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Comment
Michael White on the Budget crisis
A shadow Cabinet heavyweight summed up the Budget crisis with brutal clarity: “We have been paying nurses by taxing bankers’ bonuses. It’s unsustainable,” the MP observed with some sadness.
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CommentSimon Stevens on what the Budget means for health spending
So the Budget has confirmed what we already knew: there’s a major public spending crunch ahead. Spending across government is targeted to grow at just 0.7 per cent over the period 2011-12 to 2013-14.
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NewsDIY doctors: patients can boost NHS's value
The Budget means the NHS must get better value for money. As the need for efficiency grows, the key is to get patients with chronic illnesses to manage more of their own care
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NewsPublic spending cuts will be worse than predicted - Institute for Fiscal Studies
Public spending will be cut by 2.3 per cent a year in real terms from 2011-12 onwards, analysts at the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said.
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CommentMichael White on the Budget
Not a good Easter break for the extended White family. Between us we suffered a car crash, an emergency caesarian and a burglary.
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CommentYour Humble Servant rides with the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
‘System alignment is everyone agreeing with the DH that these are four bloody good principles’
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Leader
Budget confirms that clinicians must accept responsibility for managing money
The arid financial landscape for the health service confirmed in yesterday’s Budget means the days of clinicians avoiding responsibility for managing money are over.
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Budget 2009: NHS privatisation should be victim of savings, says union
The largest trade union in the country has said government efficiency savings should be targeted at the “costly, creeping privatisation” of the NHS.
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Budget 2009: Improve NHS productivity or cut services - King's Fund
The NHS will face “significant cuts in its services” from 2011 unless it can become more productive, the King’s Fund said in response to today’s Budget.
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Budget 2009: ABPI welcomes tax review proposal
The pharmaceutical industry has welcomed plans in the Budget to consider changes that could make the tax system more favourable to research and innovation.
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NewsBudget 2009: 'PCT allocations safe'
The Department of Health will not need to revisit the allocations it has set for primary care trusts in 2010-11, HSJ has been told.
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NewsBudget 2009: funding squeeze looms in 2011, says David Nicholson
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has not ruled out a cash cut in NHS funding from 2011.
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Local government to make £600m extra efficiency savings
Local government has been asked to provide an extra £600m in efficiency savings next year.
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Budget 2009: Don't punish NHS for excesses of 'greedy bankers' - Unison
Trade union Unison has warned against punishing public services for the excesses of “greedy bankers”, following the government’s Budget statement.
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Budget 2009: NHS asked to cut £2.3bn from plans in 2010-11
The Department of Health has been asked to contribute £2.3bn to the Treasury’s £5bn of public spending cuts in 2010-11.
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