Archive: Nhs Spending

Taxpayers face £16bn bill for clinical negligence claims

Clinical negligence pose headache for government finances

Clinical negligence claims could cost the government nearly £16 billion, "staggered" MPs have warned.

Coalition blames NHS IT failure on 'top-down' approach

UK Uncut vindicated? Commons report backs protest group

MPs: Flooding responsibility question-marks are unacceptable

NHS boss: Hospitals face 'difficult' future

Sir David Nicholson: `It is a difficult settlement for the NHS, no doubt about it`

A lack of funding growth means many hospitals will have to fundamentally change their business models, the NHS' chief executive said.

NHS job cuts total 'doubles to 50,000'

The number of job cuts expected in the NHS has nearly doubled in the last few months, according to new research.

NHS faces 'test to the limit' to deliver savings

The government's plans for health spending require 'unprecedented' efficiency savings, say MPs

The savings being asked of the NHS and social care are "unprecedented" and will stretch service provision "to the limit", according to MPs.

Comment: NHS funding gap needs urgent action

Dr Hamish Meldrum is the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) council

Health spending may be ringfenced, but the huge costs of the government's reorganisation and a shortfall in funding could lead to cuts in frontline services.

Loophole allows NHS doctors 'bonuses for life'

The loophole which allows some doctors 'bonuses for life' appears a likely candidate for abolition by the government as spending cuts bite

Top-level NHS consultants can exploit a loophole which allows them up to £75,000 of bonus payments, regardless of the quality of their work.

Lansley's reforms 'a risk to NHS future'

The health secretary's radical reform proposals have met a lukewarm response

The government's plans for NHS reform are untried, untested and pose a risk to the future of the NHS, a union has warned.

NHS 'should renegotiate' PFI repayments

Figures shine a light on NHS spending obligations

The NHS may have to consider renegotiating the 30-year repayments it faces following New Labour's private finance initiatives, a health expert has suggested.

Milk U-turn 'reflects coalition chaos'

Free milk for under-fives will remain after No 10 intervention

Labour leadership contenders have jumped to criticise Downing Street's intervention on free milk for under-fives, after David Cameron quashed a junior minister's proposal yesterday.

No 10 blocks free milk scrapping

The Department of Health's plans to end a scheme providing free milk for under-fives have been ruled out by No 10.

Lansley admits NHS 'uncertainty'

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has acknowledged there will be "uncertainty" in the NHS as he makes "tough choices" in coming years.

Ring-fencing health and aid 'unsustainable'

Foreign aid is protected under coalition spending plans

The government's plans to protect health and aid budgets have been attacked as unjustified by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Hospitals face readmission crackdown

Andrew Lansley's first big speech addresses hospital readmissions

NHS hospitals will be made responsible for patients for 30 days after they are discharged, Andrew Lansley will announce later.

SNP anger at Labour's '£1.1bn PFI legacy'

PFI hospitals leave Scottish hospitals facing a big bill

The Scottish nationalists have been left gnashing their teeth as they contemplated a £1.1 billion NHS bill left to them by the Labour government.

Lansley: NHS savings will be reinvested

Andrew Lansley faces tough calls in the Department of Health

New health secretary Andrew Lansley has said NHS spending will continue to rise in real terms - but that efficiency savings will still be required.

Shadow health secretary funding row

Andrew Lansley faced criticism of his party's funding

Andrew Lansley, the Conservative shadow health secretary, came under fire yesterday at a hustings for the alleged role of big business in his party's finances and policies.

Liverpool Wavertree: huge investment in hospital may not save Labour

A previously safe Labour seat in Liverpool may be lost - despite a government announcement on a new hospital.

'Child labour' linked to NHS supplies

Some NHS supplies are product of child labour, BMA says

Not enough doctors realise the production of some NHS supplies involves child labour, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned.

NHS incentive schemes 'unlikely to succeed'

Incentive schemes hope to improve hospital performance

Introducing incentive schemes for NHS hospitals is unlikely to improve standards, University of York researchers have claimed.

Burnham scraps GP boundaries

The health secretary refused to rule out cuts to "backroom staff"

General practice boundaries for patients are to be abolished, Andy Burnham announced this morning, allowing NHS patients to go to any doctor in the country they like.