NHS bosses 'bloody stupid' to expect £4bn cash injection

[Northerner]

The NHS’s leadership was “bloody stupid” to expect an emergency £4bn cash injection in last month’s budget, the official who until last week ran the service’s financial regulator has said.
Ministers will additionally have been “p**sed off” with the “negativity” shown by NHS leaders such as Simon Stevens towards the £1.6bn settlement the health service ultimately got from the chancellor, Philip Hammond, according to Jim Mackey.

The remarks by Mackey, who stepped down last week at the end of a two-year secondment as the head of NHS Improvement, suggest divisions at the health service’s highest levels over how it should seek to obtain more money.

Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, made clear in a hard-hitting speechbefore the budget that the service needed to receive at least £4bn additional funding in 2018-19 in order to cope with all the demands being placed on it.

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[mikeyB]

So so the departing head of NHS Improvement thinks the NHS is bloody stupid asking for £4bn.

The question I would ask is how this blowhard has been earning his money for the last two years, because there’s been bugger all improvement in the NHS.

 

[ypauly]

So so the departing head of NHS Improvement thinks the NHS is bloody stupid asking for £4bn.

The question I would ask is how this blowhard has been earning his money for the last two years, because there’s been bugger all improvement in the NHS.

It's not just him Jeremy Hunt has been banging the more money drum too. The quicker they find a way of financing the nhs for the ling term the better, the only problem is that our leaders only think short term and fast results.