All NHS funding gap articles – Page 2
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Revealed: £6bn deficit in first cut ICS plans
The draft financial plans submitted by integrated care systems for 2023-24 suggest a budget deficit of around £6bn, multiple sources have told HSJ.
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Comment
Exclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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NHSE cuts £1bn from cancer, maternity and primary care funds
NHS England is raiding a national fund earmarked for improvements in cancer, maternity care and other priority services by up to £1bn this year, to pay for deficits elsewhere, and will cut it by a similar amount in 2023-24, HSJ has learned.
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NHS England gets half of funding it warned could be needed
The chancellor has announced the NHS will receive an additional £3.3bn in each of the next two years, raising the overall budget by 2 per cent in real terms.
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New minister: Cutting capital budget ‘deeply short-termist’
New health minister Robert Jenrick has declared that cutting the NHS’s capital budgets would be ‘deeply short-term’ and undermine the government’s ability to put the service on ‘a sustainable footing for the future’.
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Exclusive: New capital fund to boost beds and A&E capacity
England’s mental health inpatient system is “running very hot” and operating well above recommended occupancy levels, HSJ has been told, as new funding to address the problem is revealed.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Preventing another Winterbourne View
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector, by correspondent Emily Townsend — contact me in confidence.
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‘New hospitals’ trusts lack cash for planned rebuilds
Half of the trusts in the government’s flagship hospital building programme are ‘not confident’ their funding allocations will be enough to deliver their projects, a new poll of NHS executives has suggested.
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Comment
The challenge facing Johnson's successor
Even as political winds shift, it’s imperative that future public and political debate on taxes and public spending on NHS is rooted in a clear understanding of the nature and scale of the challenges facing the NHS, writes Anita Charlesworth
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Comment
The growth of virtual wards needs to be driven by outcomes – not targets
Robert Harris* outlines seven essential factors to ensure the success of virtual wards and thus enable a system-wide reduction in hospital care.
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HSJ Partners
Locum’s Nest raises strategic funding round to support 100 trust deployment and £1bn NHS savings target
Healthtech company Locum’s Nest has received a multimillion strategic funding that it will use to hit £1bn in financial savings for the NHS
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HSJ Partners
We cannot meet the mental health needs of cancer patients without breaking down silos
This article was authored by All.Can UK, a multi-stakeholder initiative involving patient groups and industry experts, and has been fully funded by the All.Can UK funding partners: Bristol Myers Squibb (primary sponsor) and MSD (supporting sponsor). Together, the All.Can UK membership defined the focus of the article. Bristol Myers Squibb ...
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Exclusive: Every health system to face real-terms funding cut in 2022-23
Every health system has seen their core recurrent funding reduce in real terms in 2022-23, analysis by HSJ reveals.
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Govt cuts £330m from NHS budget and gives it 13 priorities
The government has reduced the NHS revenue budget for 2022-23 by £330m, after the Treasury refused to fund the Department of Health and Social Care for additional ongoing covid costs, HSJ understands.
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View grows that NHS ‘must live within its means’ as satisfaction plummets
The view the NHS must deliver significant improvements within its existing budget has risen sharply, alongside a dramatic fall in public satisfaction, according to the most respected annual survey of attitudes towards the UK’s health and care services.
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News
Trusts told to make savings ‘never delivered before by NHS’
NHS trusts are now facing challenging savings targets as high as 5 per cent of their total costs, which many say will be impossible to deliver.
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Comment
What Javid’s speech was really about
Built as a big reform speech, Sajid Javid’s recent speech widely left health policy commentators, who follow such reform talk closely, frustrated, bemused, underwhelmed or all three, writes Richard Sloggett
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HSJ Local
Health secretary warned of funding ‘challenge’ to A&E overhaul
The health secretary has been told that a long-delayed A&E revamp at the NHS’ only inadequate-rated trust remains ‘challenging’, with the need to meet a wide range of requirements proving ‘difficult to resolve’.
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Trusts routinely bank income as ‘savings’, contrary to NHSE claim
Financial data obtained by HSJ shows trusts have routinely used additional income received from NHS commissioners to boost their reported ‘cost improvements’ – despite regulators claiming this did not happen.
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Government agrees Health and Care Bill concessions
The government has approved several changes to the Health and Care Bill, including transparency on mental health funding, in a move sector leaders have hailed an ‘important step forward for parity’.