There is no shortage of ideas about how to deliver more bang for the buck. But it will take investment upfront to manufacture them workIn the first quarter of this financial year,the NHS overspent by £930m. That is more than the total overspend for final year. Monitor, the body that keeps its finger on the pulse of the NHS’s financial health, and says baldly that this level of deficit is not affordable.
The problem is of Micawberish simplicity,but the answer to bringing income and expenditure into line will near in many different disguises, slowly, or with difficulty. It is not entirely about more money,but it needs money to achieve it. If the chancellor agreed to front-load the additional cash that he has promised to the NHS by 2020, it would allow hospitals to invest in transforming the way they deliver care in time to manufacture the efficiency savings that NHS England has promised.
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Source: theguardian.com