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You might have thought a ?30bn shortfall in NHS finances would have prompted Jeremy Hunt into action. Apparently not.
Several recent reports have made two basic facts about the NHS impossible to ignore. One is that on current spending plans, the NHS will run out of money within the next 5 to 6 years. The other is that the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has created a dysfunctional set of structures which mask the government's failure to offer a credible response.
The Nuffield Trust has shown that because of population growth, ageing and cost increases, by 2020-21 the NHS will require some ?30bn (25%) more than it is getting now just to maintain services at their present level ? yet the government plans to keep NHS spending constant. Either services will be severely reduced or quality will deteriorate drastically or, more likely, both.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ding-gap-policy-vacuum-30-billion-jeremy-hunt
Several recent reports have made two basic facts about the NHS impossible to ignore. One is that on current spending plans, the NHS will run out of money within the next 5 to 6 years. The other is that the Health and Social Care Act 2012 has created a dysfunctional set of structures which mask the government's failure to offer a credible response.
The Nuffield Trust has shown that because of population growth, ageing and cost increases, by 2020-21 the NHS will require some ?30bn (25%) more than it is getting now just to maintain services at their present level ? yet the government plans to keep NHS spending constant. Either services will be severely reduced or quality will deteriorate drastically or, more likely, both.
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ding-gap-policy-vacuum-30-billion-jeremy-hunt