Winter pressure 'busts NHS budget'

[Northerner]

Winter pressures have caused the NHS to overspend as hospitals and other services have struggled to keep up with demand in England, finance chiefs say.

A deficit of nearly £900m was racked up by NHS trusts in the first nine months of the 2016-17 financial year.

It comes despite the health service being given extra money to help it get on top of its finances after the record £2.45bn overspend in 2015-16.

Hospitals were seeing more patients than budgeted for, they reported.

They also said problems discharging patients because of a lack of community services had cost them, said the regulator, NHS Improvement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39029265

 

[mikeyB]

Plus ça change.

 

[trophywench]

Well Urology must be saving money by seeing less - Pete's cancer hasn't had it's 6 months post radiotherapy check up yet, was due at the beginning - middle of January ......

 

[Dave W]

I don't think we've seen anything yet. When the consequences of Brexit hit the NHS - shortage of staff, less collaborative research. Ten percent of NHS staff are EU citizens and there's already a shortage of staff.I can't see the situation improving.
Did I imagine that someone or some party suggested a Brexit would result in a £350 million pounds per week gain for the NHS? Was it my dream or someone else's?

 

[Northerner]

I don't think we've seen anything yet. When the consequences of Brexit hit the NHS - shortage of staff, less collaborative research. Ten percent of NHS staff are EU citizens and there's already a shortage of staff.I can't see the situation improving.
Did I imagine that someone or some party suggested a Brexit would result in a £350 million pounds per week gain for the NHS? Was it my dream or someone else's?

Don't be daft Dave, no-one would make such a claim! Would they? 😱 😡

 

[grovesy]

I don't think we've seen anything yet. When the consequences of Brexit hit the NHS - shortage of staff, less collaborative research. Ten percent of NHS staff are EU citizens and there's already a shortage of staff.I can't see the situation improving.
Did I imagine that someone or some party suggested a Brexit would result in a £350 million pounds per week gain for the NHS? Was it my dream or someone else's?

It might have been on the side of the bus but I did not believe it. The people who were on that side of the campaign were not in a position to follow through either.

 

[trophywench]

Well it matters not what they said or who said it, there was complete bollards talked by everyone and those of us with two firing brain cells were left with trying to find out any facts we could from wherever we could find them. Either that or follow what one or another said like lambs to the slaughter. In any event like it or not - much like our diabetes - we're stuck with it now - so all we can do is try and make the best of a bad job.

No point whatever wasting energy moaning about it.

Bit like the EU nationals resident in the UK petitioning Parliament here, to secure their residency and well being here after Brexit. Why one earth petition UK politicians about this, when UK has several times tried to discuss it with either the EU or different countries separately - and it is the EU who have refused point blank to even discuss the subject let alone agree to anything whatever - until THEY are ready to do so. We've been ready and willing, and still are because we have UK nationals resident in the EU whose future also needs 'securing'.

Petition your own countries you idiots ......