Tuesday, September 11, 2007|
Trust warns of £15m hospital debt. An NHS trust says it faces going £15.5m into the red unless it closes 86 beds and cuts 750 jobs. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition] |
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£43bn has failed to make NHS first class, says Brown adviser The architect of Gordon Brown's strategy for increasing the NHS's annual budget by £43bn over the past five years will today deliver a stinging criticism of the inadequate return the investment has yielded, the Guardian can reveal. Sir Derek Wanless, hand picked by Mr Brown to review the NHS in 2002, will say it is not yet on course to deliver the first-class healthcare system that was promised because the benefits of extra spending were eroded by poor productivity, IT delays and a worsening in the British lifestyle that is fuelling an obesity crisis. Sir Derek will warn that failure to correct these problems will leave the NHS requiring further huge injections of extra funding over the next 20 years. "Such an expensive service could undermine the widespread political support for the NHS and raise questions about its long-term future," he will say in a report for the King's Fund, an independent charitable foundation. His report also questions the value of huge, and controversial, pay rises given to GPs and consultants.
John Carvel, social affairs editor |
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Wanless warns over future of NHS. The NHS will be at risk unless more is done to combat obesity and increase productivity, a report says. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition] |
