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The NHS must once again start receiving annual multimillion-pound increases in its budget to help it survive a “perfect storm” of pressures, the boss of the service’s economic regulator has warned.
The health service will struggle to cope with the ageing and growing population unless it goes back to getting above-inflation annual boosts to its funding, said Dr David Bennett.
In an interview with the Guardian, the chief executive of Monitor said the coalition’s policy of giving the NHS “flat-real” budget increases was no longer enough to ensure the service could respond to the growing demand for healthcare.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/20/nhs-needs-bigger-budget-rises-says-monitor
The health service will struggle to cope with the ageing and growing population unless it goes back to getting above-inflation annual boosts to its funding, said Dr David Bennett.
In an interview with the Guardian, the chief executive of Monitor said the coalition’s policy of giving the NHS “flat-real” budget increases was no longer enough to ensure the service could respond to the growing demand for healthcare.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/20/nhs-needs-bigger-budget-rises-says-monitor