The health service in Scotland achieved financial balance last year, according to NHS Scotland chief executive Kevin Woods’ annual report for 2008-09.
Capital expenditure was £504.5m compared with the capital budget of £508.5m, meaning it underspent by £4m. The report also says NHS Scotland is “making steady and sustained progress” on reducing waiting times.
Acute trusts will need to increase their bed base during the next five years according to NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, which would reverse a long trend of bed reductions in the NHS.
Ten mental health trusts have been singled out by NHS England for dragging down the national performance on mental health out of area placements, HSJ has learned.
Matt Hancock’s digital ambitions cannot be realised if the government continues to withhold capital funding from the service, the NHS Confederation’s chief has warned.
New data suggests there was no significant rise in land sales by the NHS in 2018-19, despite the government relying on an uplift in receipts to fund new investment.
The NHS’s buying power for goods and services worth up to £10bn could be taken away from individual trusts and placed in central teams, under proposals leaked to HSJ .
HSJ ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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