The Conservatives promise in their manifesto to provide communities with ringfenced public health cash, “weighting public health funding towards the poorest areas with the worst health outcomes”.
But how should they calculate the weighting? Instead of getting into complicated capitation calculations they should simply weigh the population and give the most cash to the areas with the greatest tonnage.
New health secretary Matt Hancock, who took over the role from Jeremy Hunt this week, sets out his stall to the NHS in an exclusive editorial for HSJ.
Andy Cowper on what he calls the unutterably depressing saga of the Home Office blocking the visa applications of 100 doctors who have been recruited to come and work in the NHS
A survey into how restorative dentistry is paid for has found wide disparity in the funding of the service in the UK, which leads to variations in the service provided, note Ulpee Darbar and Ishpinder Kaur Toor
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