Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The NHS in England needs to take urgent decisions about reorganising hospital and GP care to avoid a growing funding gap, according to its leaders.
In a report, NHS England warns that by 2020-21 the gap between the budget and rising costs could reach ?30bn.
The organisation's chief executive, Sir David Nicholson, said services needed to be concentrated in fewer hospitals.
Otherwise he said pressures could lead to another tragedy on the scale of the failings at Stafford Hospital.
Sir David Nicholson: "The NHS is facing really significant challenges"
Sir David told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We need to make sure that the way in which services are organised is in the best way for patients."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23258962
Margaret Hodge (my favourite MP, and possibly the hardest working!) made the point on the Daily Politics that diabetes costs could be significantly reduced if people got all the appropriate tests to pre-empt expensive complications - good to hear that at least one person in power recognises this fact! 🙂
In a report, NHS England warns that by 2020-21 the gap between the budget and rising costs could reach ?30bn.
The organisation's chief executive, Sir David Nicholson, said services needed to be concentrated in fewer hospitals.
Otherwise he said pressures could lead to another tragedy on the scale of the failings at Stafford Hospital.
Sir David Nicholson: "The NHS is facing really significant challenges"
Sir David told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We need to make sure that the way in which services are organised is in the best way for patients."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23258962
Margaret Hodge (my favourite MP, and possibly the hardest working!) made the point on the Daily Politics that diabetes costs could be significantly reduced if people got all the appropriate tests to pre-empt expensive complications - good to hear that at least one person in power recognises this fact! 🙂