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Hospitals are to receive more money for treating patients admitted as emergencies after NHS bosses relaxed a payments system which critics say has wrongly denied A&E units an estimated ?500m a year.
Emergency departments have been struggling with a funding rule which means they receive only 30% of the cost of treating any patient admitted as an emergency over and above the number of patients treated in 2008-09.
So as many A&E units have been hit by sharp rises in emergency admissions ? one of the service's most difficult challenges in the last 12 months ? some hospital trusts have been losing up to ?10m a year each, according to the Foundation Trust Network (FTN).
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ore-money-aande-cases-30-percent-funding-rule
Emergency departments have been struggling with a funding rule which means they receive only 30% of the cost of treating any patient admitted as an emergency over and above the number of patients treated in 2008-09.
So as many A&E units have been hit by sharp rises in emergency admissions ? one of the service's most difficult challenges in the last 12 months ? some hospital trusts have been losing up to ?10m a year each, according to the Foundation Trust Network (FTN).
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ore-money-aande-cases-30-percent-funding-rule