NHS Funding Last Night's This Week
 

On last night's This Week program, it was stated several times that the NHS was asked by the government how much money they needed last year with regard an ongoing budget to cover several years and they were given the figure they asked for.

I did a bit of a google and found an article about it where the NHS chief and government dispute each others story.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/...health-funding

Although The chief executive of NHS England disagreed with the prime minister’s statement, he did admit that the NHS had been given the funding it requested for two years involved in the budget plan.

To me this doesn't sound like the Government are starving the NHS of cash though there do seem to be some mistakes being made but mistakes on both sides. Are the government getting an unfair rap over funding? Are the NHS budgeting poorly?

It's the 13th of January, are you seriously suggesting he govt and the NHS underestimated the amount of money the service would need, to the extent the red cross are being drafted in as they have misappropriated all their funding in 13 days?

Perhaps if you read the words I wrote it might help. :shrug:

Are the NHS budgeting poorly?


It's the 13th of January, the red cross are being drafted in as they have misappropriated all their funding in 13 days?

Better?

I spoke about a budget that is meant to cover several years. Not a budget for the last 13 days. If you don't read or understand what I'm saying, don't respond. :shrug:

:conf: don't start threads if you don't want people to respond. We are only 13 days into this year if a budget was granted last year to last however long would the govt not be asking where their funds had gone?

Nowhere in the article you posted is the merest whiff that there has been any budgeting errors, the first and last years figures may have been granted but what of those in the middle? they have not, meanwhile the PM is lying about what provision the NHS has ...why?

'the £8bn figure was at the lower end of projections of the NHS’s needs. “The original modelling suggested a funding requirement in five years’ time of between £8bn and £21bn, depending on the level of efficiency which could be produced, the continuing availability of social care relative to rising need'

They were given the bare minimum knowing that all profit making areas had been cherry picked and all that was left was a bleeding stump where they had been.

The Government will cut the National Health Service’s budget per person in real terms next year, ministers have admitted in official figures for the first time.

Numbers released by ministers show NHS England will face a sharp reduction of 0.6 per cent in real terms of per head in the financial year 2018-19.

The numbers corroborate claims by NHS chief Simon Stevens earlier this month that “in 2018-19, real-terms NHS spending per person in England is going to go down”.


Yeah, thanks... 350million my arse!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7549686.html

Surely the financial/fiscal year is April to April.