Private hospitals bid for bigger chunk of NHS budget in ‘Privatisation Plan’ considered by government –Mirror, 11th October Anger as NHS hospitals in England charge £2 an hour for wheelchairs –The National, 11th October Patients at NHS hospitals forced to pay £2 for ‘Boris bike‘– ...
away from patient care towards the unnecessary internal market and private providers. Admin costs have rocketed from some 4% of the NHS budget in the late 1980s to double figures. Experts say the internal market costs some £5 billion a year, totalling some £150 billion over 30 years!
To be eligible for NHS continuing healthcare you must be over 18 and have substantial and ongoing care needs. You must have been assessed as having a “primary health need”, which means that your main or primary need for care must re late to your health. ...
Convincing people that “tech” and “digital” will deliver cash savings and teach required skills througheducational machine learningis key if staff costs are to be reduced, which in times of austerity and if all else has been cut, is the only budget left to slash. Self-taught systems’pro...
Rising levels of illness are risking economic prosperity, with 2.8 million people unable to work because of poor health. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged to spend a greater proportion of the NHS budget on GPs, social care and “community services” than on hospitals, which he said wo...
The major reason for the dangerously low level of biomedical staff is not far-fetched. The Conservative Government approved NHS budget cuts over the past two years, in order to save £20bn. This has significantly and negatively affected the quality of the service delivered as well as staff ...
However, this rise might not be quite as alarming as it first seems: according to King’s Fund, an independent UK healthcare think tank, although £9.2 billion of the Health and Social Care budget went to private companies in 2018 to 19, compared to £8.8 billion the year before...
at the heart of nhsx is the nhs artificial intelligence laboratory, launched in august 2019 with a budget of £250 million and headed up by indra joshi, a former a&e clinician who headed up digital health and ai for nhs england. joshi’s role is to “streamline the development and ...
2 In 2004-05 the NHS in England spent a total of £69.7 billion. Over the period of the five-year settlement announced in the 2002 Budget (2002-03 to 2007-08), expenditure in the NHS is rising at an average of 7.3 per cent per annum in real terms, bringing total annual ...
Due to their complexity, admissions to inpatient rehabilitation services are longer than general (‘acute’) mental health admissions and community support costs for this group are high; it has been estimated that around half the total health and social care budget for mental health is spent on ...