NHS managers in England back Kerslake's underfunding claim

[Northerner]

NHS managers have backed the claim by Bob Kerslake, the outgoing chairman of King’s College hospital, that the health service is being denied the money it needsto meet the rising demand for healthcare.

The NHS Confederation, which represents 85% of the NHS’s 240 trusts in England, urged the government to ditch its policy of giving the service small increases and instead realise that it deserved a greater share of national income.

Their support came as the south London trust was put into “financial special measures” by the NHS’s financial regulator as a result of serious concerns about the trust’s growing deficit.

King’s had agreed with NHS Improvement that it would end up no more than £38m in the red at the end of 2017-18, but now expects its deficit to be as much as £96m after a significant deterioration in its finances. King’s has the worst financial control in the entire NHS, the financial regulator said.

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[Amigo]

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the Government who should be put into ‘Special Measures’ and somebody more competent take over!

 

[ypauly]

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the Government who should be put into ‘Special Measures’ and somebody more competent take over!

I would agree but the whole of parliament is sadly lacking in competence.

They need to find a way of funding that takes political parties out of the equation something like 15% of all income tax collected goes to the nhs no more no less it would rise anually with tax receipts

 

[mikeyB]

Aye, they have a fixed percentage going to foreign aid, so why not the NHS? And they could fund the NHS just with the tax that Google, Apple and Amazon avoids.

 

[ypauly]

Aye, they have a fixed percentage going to foreign aid, so why not the NHS?

Very true, I would like a fixed percentage on a few key areas, but the nhs should be their priority