NHS needs ‘significant’ uplift or faces cuts in areas Labour hopes to improve
2 months, 2 weeks ago

NHS needs ‘significant’ uplift or faces cuts in areas Labour hopes to improve

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The NHS is heading for a “significant overspend” this year, experts have said as they warned about potential cuts to parts of the health system which ministers have vowed to improve. This will likely mean further cuts to non-NHS budgets like public health and technology, achieving the very opposite of the laudable aims to prioritise improvements in these areas, announced for the Government’s 10-year plan. Experts from the Nuffield Trust said that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will need to increase the overall health budget by 3.6% “just to manage current day to day cost pressures”. “If it is overspent to the tune of £4.8 billion at the end of this financial year, this will likely mean further cuts to non-NHS budgets like public health and technology, achieving the very opposite of the laudable aims to prioritise improvements in these areas, announced for the Government’s 10-year plan.” The health think tank has published a briefing paper which highlights how in recent years the NHS England budget has been topped up in-year by transfers from the wider Department for Health and Social Care budget, which has “already been squeezed with a real-terms funding cuts”.

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Starmer unveils overhaul of NHS – everything you need to know on changes to GPs and hospitals
2 days, 1 hour ago

Starmer unveils overhaul of NHS – everything you need to know on changes to GPs and hospitals

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Hospitals becoming ‘dangerous’ after underinvestment, warns NHS chief
1 week, 1 day ago

Hospitals becoming ‘dangerous’ after underinvestment, warns NHS chief

The Independent  

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How long will the shadow of Reeves’ Budget hang over Britain’s gloomy economy?
2 weeks, 4 days ago

How long will the shadow of Reeves’ Budget hang over Britain’s gloomy economy?

The Independent  

Fun fact: the OECD still predicts that Britain’s economy will be one of the stars of the G7 during 2025 with growth of 1.7 per cent, lagging only behind the US at 2.4 per cent. Labour’s tax-raising budget, and particularly the decision to raise £24bn by hiking employer national insurance contributions looms large over UK plc. The Bank of England’s …

Budget changes will leave disabled and elderly without care as struggling providers go under, experts warn
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Budget changes will leave disabled and elderly without care as struggling providers go under, experts warn

The Independent  

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New Budget blow to Rachel Reeves as disability charity says it may be forced to scrap key services
4 weeks ago

New Budget blow to Rachel Reeves as disability charity says it may be forced to scrap key services

The Independent  

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Job losses and price hikes inevitable, warn UK’s biggest firms in stark message to Rachel Reeves over Budget
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Job losses and price hikes inevitable, warn UK’s biggest firms in stark message to Rachel Reeves over Budget

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UK govt outlines plan for NHS
1 month, 3 weeks ago

UK govt outlines plan for NHS

China Daily  

The United Kingdom government has laid out its plans to reform the nation's public health service, with a 23-billion-pound funding boost aimed at reducing waiting lists and improving efficiency across the healthcare system. In a statement released on Wednesday, Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting, said: "We are announcing the reforms to make sure every penny of extra investment …

Is the backlash against Reeves’s national insurance hike justified?
2 months ago

Is the backlash against Reeves’s national insurance hike justified?

The Independent  

It should probably come as no surprise that what the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, once described as “a tax on jobs” has turned out to be. In particular, the “secondary threshold” – the level at which employers become liable to pay national insurance on each employee’s salary – will come down from £9,100 per year to £5,000 per year. The health …

Budget 2024: Rachel Reeves faces backlash from GPs, care homes and hospices over national insurance hike
2 months ago

Budget 2024: Rachel Reeves faces backlash from GPs, care homes and hospices over national insurance hike

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Spending plans mean £9 billion of cuts after next year, economists warn
2 months, 1 week ago

Spending plans mean £9 billion of cuts after next year, economists warn

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Papers react to Labour’s Budget ‘gamble’
2 months, 1 week ago

Papers react to Labour’s Budget ‘gamble’

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NHS pay and pension rises to swallow up half of Reeves’s £22bn spending spree
2 months, 1 week ago

NHS pay and pension rises to swallow up half of Reeves’s £22bn spending spree

The Telegraph  

At the same time, hospital consultants received a 6 per cent pay rise, having had a bumper deal with rises of up to 20 per cent in 2023/24. Research by the Nuffield Trust think tank shows that the NHS is already planning to spend £13 billion extra in the current year – far ahead of the extra £10.4bn it has …

NHS cash injection will ‘bring waiting lists down’ – Chancellor
2 months, 1 week ago

NHS cash injection will ‘bring waiting lists down’ – Chancellor

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Flatlining NHS gets major £22.6billion Budget injection to cut waiting lists - amid warnings there will still be a winter crisis and it may STILL need more cash
2 months, 1 week ago

Flatlining NHS gets major £22.6billion Budget injection to cut waiting lists - amid warnings there will still be a winter crisis and it may STILL need more cash

Daily Mail  

The NHS was a major winner from Rachel Reeves's first Budget as Chancellor as she poured £22.6billion more into the flatlining health service. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned the additional funding set to be announced in Labour's first Budget is unlikely to deliver major improvements Yesterday he said the injection of funding will help meet Labour's pledge to deliver …

Billions for NHS is just the start of Reeves’s tax-fuelled spending spree
2 months, 1 week ago

Billions for NHS is just the start of Reeves’s tax-fuelled spending spree

The Telegraph  

Britain’s tax raid appears to have one clear winner. An extra £25 billion over the next two years – equivalent to the entire rise in employers’ National Insurance contributions – will take the overall budget of the Department of Health and Social Care beyond £200 billion for the first time. “I don’t think, in one Budget, you can undo 14 …

Reeves: Budget tax raid not enough to fix NHS
2 months, 1 week ago

Reeves: Budget tax raid not enough to fix NHS

The Telegraph  

Tax rises in the Budget will not be the last, the Chancellor has suggested after admitting that the money she will give the NHS on Wednesday will not be enough to fix it. Rachel Reeves is set to inflict a £35 billion tax raid by raising National Insurance contributions for employers and increasing capital gains tax, in part to fund …

NHS problems will not be fixed ‘in a single Budget’, says Streeting
2 months, 2 weeks ago

NHS problems will not be fixed ‘in a single Budget’, says Streeting

The Independent  

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Rachel Reeves planning £3bn welfare cuts in Budget
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Rachel Reeves planning £3bn welfare cuts in Budget

The Independent  

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Keir Starmer takes on ‘broken’ NHS and warns: no more money without reforms
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Keir Starmer takes on ‘broken’ NHS and warns: no more money without reforms

The Independent  

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No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer
3 months, 3 weeks ago

No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer

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NHS is 'broken' and must 'reform or die', says Keir Starmer as he vows no more money unless service agrees to change - after grim report found huge investment has failed to boost performance
3 months, 3 weeks ago

NHS is 'broken' and must 'reform or die', says Keir Starmer as he vows no more money unless service agrees to change - after grim report found huge investment has failed to boost performance

Daily Mail  

Keir Starmer warned that the 'broken' NHS must 'reform or die' today after a damning report found billions of pounds in extra investment has failed to boost performance. In a round of interviews this morning ahead of Sir Keir's keynote speech, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the NHS 'unquestionably' wastes money and could go 'bust' without fundamental change. Sir Keir …

Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector

The Independent  

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British healthcare is ‘bottom of the pack’ compared with other wealthy nations
4 months, 2 weeks ago

British healthcare is ‘bottom of the pack’ compared with other wealthy nations

The Telegraph  

Ruth Thorlby, Health Foundation’s assistant director of policy, said: “These findings show the UK consistently coming near the bottom of the pack on people’s experience of healthcare compared with other high-income countries. The Government is right to prioritise bringing down waiting lists, but that can only be done with a concerted effort to improve primary care and ensuring good coordination …

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to reveal £20billion hole in UK's public finances - intensifying fears that hefty Labour tax hikes are on the way
5 months, 1 week ago

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to reveal £20billion hole in UK's public finances - intensifying fears that hefty Labour tax hikes are on the way

Daily Mail  

Rachel Reeves is set to reveal a staggering deficit in the public finances of up to £20billion, working up to a significant tax hike this autumn. Rachel Reeves is set to reveal a staggering deficit in the public finances of up to £20billion, working up to a significant tax hike this autumn The Chancellor is expected to implement tax increases …

Wes Streeting: I will outdo Blair to clear NHS backlog
7 months, 1 week ago

Wes Streeting: I will outdo Blair to clear NHS backlog

The Telegraph  

Labour will also claim on Wednesday that the NHS waiting list will hit 10 million if the Tories remain in power. Labour’s plans to tackle record NHS waits include putting on 40,000 extra appointments each week by utilising weekend and evening slots, as well as doubling the number of scanners available to run diagnostics on patients. Labour’s plan to tackle …

Long-term work sickness absence ‘a serious fiscal threat’ to UK
1 year, 3 months ago

Long-term work sickness absence ‘a serious fiscal threat’ to UK

The Independent  

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Sick note Britain: Country’s ‘sickness explosion’ costing economy £15bn every year, experts warn
1 year, 5 months ago

Sick note Britain: Country’s ‘sickness explosion’ costing economy £15bn every year, experts warn

The Independent  

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Vital NHS services face cutbacks as government excludes thousands of workers from pay deal
1 year, 7 months ago

Vital NHS services face cutbacks as government excludes thousands of workers from pay deal

The Independent  

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Labour has a long-term plan for NHS but we don’t, warns Tory former minister
1 year, 11 months ago

Labour has a long-term plan for NHS but we don’t, warns Tory former minister

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NHS wants ANOTHER £7billion
2 years, 2 months ago

NHS wants ANOTHER £7billion

Daily Mail  

Bosses of the ailing NHS want billions more cash to keep key services running this winter as Rishi Sunak rules out cutting its budget as part of the public spending squeeze. For 2021/22 the Treasury said the health service is set to receive £136.1billion pounds of core funding, as well as £3billion to help with the Covid recovery The NHS …

NHS day-to-day budget faces £20bn inflation blackhole, Truss warned
2 years, 3 months ago

NHS day-to-day budget faces £20bn inflation blackhole, Truss warned

The Telegraph  

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said the health budget set out at last year’s Spending Review has been made “somewhat redundant by inflation”. “Either the government has got to admit that it isn't able to fund the NHS at the level that it certainly felt it needed to fund the NHS this time last year, or else …

Keep national insurance rise to boost social care wages, say Tory MPs
2 years, 5 months ago

Keep national insurance rise to boost social care wages, say Tory MPs

The Independent  

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Boris Johnson defends ‘necessary and fair’ National Insurance rise
2 years, 9 months ago

Boris Johnson defends ‘necessary and fair’ National Insurance rise

The Telegraph  

The Prime Minister has defended the decision to hike up national insurance for millions of workers, arguing that the manifesto-breaking rise is "necessary, fair and responsible". From April 2023 onwards, the NI rate will decrease back to the 2021-22 level, with a new 1.25 per cent health and social care levy legally introduced. The UK Government predicts that the tax …

NHS trusts to get funding based on how well they clear Covid backlogs
2 years, 10 months ago

NHS trusts to get funding based on how well they clear Covid backlogs

The Telegraph  

NHS trusts will receive funding based on how effectively they clear the Covid backlog under plans agreed by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. Ministers are planning to announce the return of a "payment by results" system for funding elective surgery to incentivise hospital performance and demonstrate value for money from the National Insurance rise. Ministers believe it will help extract …

Government’s social care reform plan is ‘insufficient’
3 years, 1 month ago

Government’s social care reform plan is ‘insufficient’

The Independent  

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Boris Johnson's social care plan: why tax increases may not fix NHS crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

Boris Johnson's social care plan: why tax increases may not fix NHS crisis

The Telegraph  

Anita Charlesworth, director of research at the Health Foundation, warns this “falls well short of what is needed to stabilise the current system and deliver the comprehensive reform that is so desperately needed”. Only after the health service has had a chance to recover might more cash be diverted to social care, if a brave minister decides the NHS can …

Ministers warned NHS is as stretched now as at the height of pandemic
3 years, 5 months ago

Ministers warned NHS is as stretched now as at the height of pandemic

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Austerity to continue for many public services as Budget makes further £4bn of cuts
3 years, 10 months ago

Austerity to continue for many public services as Budget makes further £4bn of cuts

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The health nudge is merely a mirage
3 years, 11 months ago

The health nudge is merely a mirage

Live Mint  

HYDERABAD : The Union Budget, as expected, focused on healthcare, recognizing the havoc that the pandemic has caused in the country. With current enrolment under RSBY and other state-run insurance schemes well below the target of 500 million, increased allocation of funds was a necessary step in order to expand health insurance coverage. In a year when everything should have …

Spending review: Chancellor promises to make jobs ‘number one priority’ in package for economic recovery from pandemic
4 years, 1 month ago

Spending review: Chancellor promises to make jobs ‘number one priority’ in package for economic recovery from pandemic

The Independent  

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Will Rishi Sunak’s investment in the NHS be enough?
4 years, 1 month ago

Will Rishi Sunak’s investment in the NHS be enough?

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Theresa May's flagship NHS plan set to fail because of dithering on social care, NHS bosses say
5 years, 6 months ago

Theresa May's flagship NHS plan set to fail because of dithering on social care, NHS bosses say

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