Securing The Future Financial Sustainability Of The Nhs

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102977202
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Securing the future financial sustainability of the NHS written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although in 2011-12 there was a surplus of £2.1 billion across the NHS as a whole, there is also some financial distress, particularly in some hospital trusts. In the long term, achieving financially sustainable healthcare is likely to mean changes to how and where people access services, and some local commissioners are already consulting on and developing plans to do this. Currently, some organisations have relied on additional financial support from within the NHS. 10 NHS trusts, 21 NHS foundation trusts, and three Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have reported a combined deficit of £356 million. There are four foundation trusts and 17 NHS trusts which between 2006-07 and 2011-12 needed injections of working capital from the Department of Health totalling £1 billion. The Department anticipates that NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts are likely to need around £300 million more public dividend capital in 2012-13. 51 per cent of PCTs reported concern about the financial sustainability of their healthcare providers. Previously, PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) have been able to support otherwise weak providers. It is not yet clear whether clinical commissioning groups and the NHS Commissioning Board will agree to provide financial support to providers in this way. The NAO concludes that it is hard to see how continuing to give financial support to organisations in difficulty will be a sustainable way of reconciling growing demand for healthcare with the size of efficiency gains required within the NHS

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215049704
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Health written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring a viable financial future for healthcare providers is vital if the public are to have confidence in the delivery of their local services. In 2011-12 NHS organisations in England reported a combined overall surplus of £2.1 billion. There were, however, significant variations in performance between NHS bodies. 377 NHS organisations reported a surplus in the year, but 10 NHS trusts, 21 NHS foundation trusts and three Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) reported a combined deficit of £356 million. Eleven NHS foundation trusts would not have made foundation trust status today given their financial performance, and there is a real concern that some organisations will fail. The very difficult financial situation of some NHS bodies is particularly marked in London, where two trusts reported a combined deficit of £115 million. The Department placed one of these, South London Healthcare NHS Trust, in special administration in July 2012. Also a number of trusts in financial difficulty have PFI contracts with fixed annual charges that are so high the trusts cannot break even. The Department was unable to spell out to the Committee a clear plan to achieve financial sustainability and a clear strategy for dealing with financial failure in individual trusts. The Department could not provide adequate reassurances that financial problems would not damage either the quality of care or equality of access to all citizens, wherever they live.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215055279
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Expenditure on Health and Care Services written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report states that the values of the NHS will only be reflected in practice if NHS and social care services are 're-imagined'. The care provided by the health and social care system will break down if quicker progress is not made to develop more integrated health and social care services which focus on meeting the needs of individual patients. It is unlikely that public expenditure on health and social care services will increase significantly in the foreseeable future. This means that the only way to sustain or improve present service levels in the NHS will be to focus on a transformation of care through genuine and sustained service integration. There must be a much more joined up approach to commissioning health and care services. On other issues the Health Committee also concludes: measures currently being used to respond to the Nicholson Challenge too often represent short-term fixes rather than the sustainable long-term service transformations; changes in tariff payments within the NHS do not constitute ’efficiency savings' - they are simply internal transfers; under-spending against budget of money allocated to the NHS has attracted adverse comment and the MPs call for a general review of the operation of Treasury rules; the NHS will not be able to rely on the present rate of paybill savings once the present restraints on public sector pay are relaxed in April 2013

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102980509
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The board of Peterborough and Stamford NHS Trust failed to recognize in 2007 that a PFI scheme to build a new hospital, Peterborough City Hospital, would place considerable strain on its finances for years to come. The then board compounded the decision to proceed with the scheme, which it could not afford, with a failure to monitor other changes affecting its income and costs between 2007 and 2011. In 2011-12, the in-year deficit was £46 million and the Trust is predicting an in-year deficit of more than £50 million in 2012-13. Monitor, the regulator of foundation trusts, raised well-founded concerns about the scheme's affordability with the Trust Board and the Department, however neither addressed these concerns fully before approval of the business case. Despite its earlier views, the regulator rated the Trust as a very low financial risk, reflecting its reported financial position but this risk rating did not reflect the future impact of the PFI development. Monitor had a number of opportunities to intervene before finally placing the Trust in breach of its terms in October 2011 but concluded that an intervention would not necessarily improve or change the outcome positively. The level of healthcare undertaken by the Trust is also greater than envisaged in the PFI business case, which assumed a 14 per cent drop in outpatient activity whereas this increased by 21 per cent. In addition, NHS Peterborough, the Trust's main commissioner, which has been in financial difficulty itself, has used national and local performance indicators to withhold payments for activity undertaken by the Trust

Author : M. Burton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316241
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Public Sector Reform written by M. Burton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive 'bird's eye' account of public sector reform supported by references from over 400 official sources, this book is an invaluable guide to all those in the public, private and voluntary sectors grappling with the twin challenges of managing public spending austerity and the pressure in response to transform public services.

Author : Rudolf Klein
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1909368016
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of the NHS, Seventh Edition written by Rudolf Klein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Politics of the NHS has become established over 30 years as the key overview of the NHS, its processes and paths of influence. The seventh edition remains a clear, easy-to-read guide to often complex debates. It encompasses both the background of the evolution of the NHS since its foundation, and a completely up-to-date picture of its prese

Author : Yseult Marique
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781004552
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public–Private Partnerships and the Law written by Yseult Marique and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines the legal regulation of Public_Private Partnerships (PPPs) and provides a systematic overview of PPPs and their functions. It covers both the contractual relationships between public and private actors and the relationships be

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215054531
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Restructuring of the National Offender Management Service written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Offender Management Service directly manages 117 public prisons, manages the contracts of 14 private prisons, and is responsible for a prisoner population of around 86,000. It commissions and funds services from 35 probation trusts, which oversee approximately 165,000 offenders serving community sentences. For 2012-13, the Agency's budget is £3,401 million. The Agency achieved its savings targets of £230 million in 2011-12 and maintained its overall performance, despite an increase in the prison population. However, the Agency's savings targets of £246 million in 2012-13, £262 million in 2013-14 and £145 million in 2014-15 are challenging. The Agency believes it has scope to make the prison estate more efficient by closing older, more expensive prisons and investing in new ones. These plans, however, assume the prison population will stay at its current level. Furthermore, the Agency has not yet secured the up-front funding for the voluntary redundancies needed to bring down prison staffing costs. Unless overcrowding is addressed and staff continue to carry out offender management work it is increasingly likely that rehabilitation work needed to reduce the risk of prisoners reoffending will not be provided. The Agency has not done enough to address the risks to safety, decency and standards in prisons and in community services arising from staffing cuts implemented to meet financial targets. The Agency plans to increase the role of private firms and the third sector in probation but the probation trusts don't appear to have the infrastructure and skills they need to commission probation services from these providers effectively

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102980547
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress in Making NHS Efficiency Savings written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Health has reported that the NHS achieved £5.8 billion of savings in 2011-12, virtually all of the forecast total of £5.9 billion. Most of the savings were generated through the pay freeze for public sector staff, and reductions in the prices primary care trusts pay for healthcare. NHS bodies also made savings by cutting back-office costs. However, there is limited assurance that all the reported savings were achieved. The NAO substantiated a total of £3.4 billion of NHS efficiency savings. Although the savings made by NHS providers as a percentage of operating costs are increasing, it is not clear what level of savings is sustainable over time. Changes to transform services take time to implement and the Department has always expected that these savings will predominantly come in the latter half of the four-year period. The NHS is seeking to maintain the quality of, and access to, healthcare at the same time as making efficiency savings. In 2011-12, the NHS performed well against headline indicators of quality, including waiting times and healthcare associated infection rates. The indicators focus mainly on hospital care and the Department faces a significant challenge in monitoring quality across the NHS as a whole. The Department does not know whether the demand for healthcare is being managed in ways that inappropriately restrict patients' access to care. Reducing demand and redesigning care pathways to treat patients in the most appropriate setting are key ways of generating savings

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215053275
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funding for Local Transport written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for Transport works with local partners to deliver many of its policies. Local authorities play a key role in planning and commissioning transport services, such as bus and light rail, and providing and maintaining roads and other local infrastructure. They spent a total of £8.5 billion on transport in 2010-11. The Department provided around a quarter of this (£2.2 billion), with the rest raised locally from council tax, from the £411 million surplus raised from parking levies, or from the Department for Communities and Local Government formula grant. In 2011-12 the Department provided £1.2 billion to local authorities for highways maintenance and small transport projects in the form of two un-ringfenced formula-based grants. The Department does not monitor how un-ringfenced grants are spent and there is insufficient information to determine the impact of the Department's contribution on local authorities' spending decisions and therefore to achieving the Department's objectives. The Department plans to devolve more control over its funding to the local level (raising the proportion of resources which are not ringfenced portion from 60% to around 80%); and new local transport bodies will take on some decision-making responsibilities previously held centrally. Full details of how the new system will work are still to be determined and there is uncertainty over how the arrangements will work in practice.