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It seems to have worked.
The “five year forward view” launched by NHS England boss Simon Stevens was widely acclaimed as an astute plan offering the politicians a new deal they would find it impossible to ignore: productivity reform and new models of care to close some of the NHS funding gap, and more government money to fill the rest.
This smart policy choreography culminated in the chancellor’s autumn statement commitment to find more money for the NHS next year – around £2bn - though not of all it appears to be new money.
Within weeks political parties have lurched from virtual silence on future funding to a fiscal bidding war about who will spend most on the NHS.
There is no doubt that the NHS needs the money. But what about local authority social care budgets?
http://www.lgcplus.com/the-nhs-need...icle?blocktitle=Latest-Opinion&contentID=5828
The “five year forward view” launched by NHS England boss Simon Stevens was widely acclaimed as an astute plan offering the politicians a new deal they would find it impossible to ignore: productivity reform and new models of care to close some of the NHS funding gap, and more government money to fill the rest.
This smart policy choreography culminated in the chancellor’s autumn statement commitment to find more money for the NHS next year – around £2bn - though not of all it appears to be new money.
Within weeks political parties have lurched from virtual silence on future funding to a fiscal bidding war about who will spend most on the NHS.
There is no doubt that the NHS needs the money. But what about local authority social care budgets?
http://www.lgcplus.com/the-nhs-need...icle?blocktitle=Latest-Opinion&contentID=5828
