NHS bosses 'spent half of extra Autumn Statement cash on outside services'

[Northerner]

About half of a £2bn cash boost from the 2014 Autumn Statement for frontline health services in England was spent outside the NHS, research has found.

The Health Foundation analysis for the Financial Times showed £901m was spent on buying services from private and non-NHS providers in 2015/16.

It said £800m was spent buying the same kind of care from NHS trusts.

The government said it showed the NHS was "making clinical judgments about delivering high-quality care",

Ex-chancellor George Osborne said in his final Autumn Statement before the 2015 general election that the money for NHS England was a "down payment" on a plan drawn up by NHS bosses, which called for an extra £8bn a year above inflation by 2020.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39401540

 

[mikeyB]

So they are around 50% along the road to privatisation of NHS England. And I don't suppose the care provided by these private providers is any better than the NHS. They're only used because the NHS can't cope because of underfunding, so it's inevitable that the American private care providers will win, then hold the NHS to ransom to maximise profit.

Or am I being cynical?

 

[Northerner]

Or am I being cynical?

No, sounds a lot like Hunt's plan... 😡

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Public money into private hands 😡