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The head of the NHS in England has predicted a “public backlash” if funding for health services is not increased during the next parliament.
Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, told the Financial Times he hoped for more annual funding on top of the £2bn lifeline the chancellor, George Osborne, promised should the Tories succeed at the general election.
He said a “boom-bust” attitude to funding was “inefficient for taxpayers and bad for patients”.
“Either we have a thoughtful, sequenced series of annual real funding increases, building on next year’s ‘downpayment’, against which the health service can plan and make the necessary efficiencies, or we have a heavily constrained squeeze,” Stevens told the paper.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ney-in-or-face-public-backlash-says-nhs-chief
Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, told the Financial Times he hoped for more annual funding on top of the £2bn lifeline the chancellor, George Osborne, promised should the Tories succeed at the general election.
He said a “boom-bust” attitude to funding was “inefficient for taxpayers and bad for patients”.
“Either we have a thoughtful, sequenced series of annual real funding increases, building on next year’s ‘downpayment’, against which the health service can plan and make the necessary efficiencies, or we have a heavily constrained squeeze,” Stevens told the paper.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ney-in-or-face-public-backlash-says-nhs-chief