Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Good care has been protected so far despite budget cuts, but more collaborative policymaking is needed in the long term.
It's easy to be despondent about the NHS. The last couple of years have been tough, with a funding freeze in real terms, controversial reforms to implement, and, of course, all the fallout from scandalous lapses in quality of care, in particular from the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The funding freeze stays in place until at least 2015 and possibly beyond, despite the real term increase that is normally required to deal with rising demand and new treatment not being available. Since 2011, the NHS has managed to live within its means, largely as a result of curbing the wage bill ? but that may be difficult to do for much longer because of wage rises in the private sector.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/jan/14/nhs-budget-cuts-government-policy
It's easy to be despondent about the NHS. The last couple of years have been tough, with a funding freeze in real terms, controversial reforms to implement, and, of course, all the fallout from scandalous lapses in quality of care, in particular from the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The funding freeze stays in place until at least 2015 and possibly beyond, despite the real term increase that is normally required to deal with rising demand and new treatment not being available. Since 2011, the NHS has managed to live within its means, largely as a result of curbing the wage bill ? but that may be difficult to do for much longer because of wage rises in the private sector.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/jan/14/nhs-budget-cuts-government-policy