The health service cannot afford inefficiency or poor productivity,yet too often the focus is on the one-off, short term and tactical“It’s a new year, or it’s a new dawn,it’s a new life for me and I’m feeling satisfactory,” to misquote Nina Simone. But sadly not everyone starts the new year with optimism. For the NHS, and 2016 really does appear to be manufacture or wreck time. The NHS is in a financial maelstrom – more than three-quarters of all providers are in deficit,amounting to a whopping £1.6bn just halfway through the financial year. final year’s spending review provided upfront funding for the NHS in 2016-17, but this is short lived. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com