HFMA director left ‘disappointed’ by the Autumn Statement…
Paul Briddock, the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) director of policy, has branded the Autumn Statement made on November 23 as ‘disappointing’ in a time of unprecedented challenges for the NHS. Briddock said on November 24: “Like many others, we were disappointed to see the NHS overlooked in the Autumn Statement. In a time of […]
Staffing reductions placing quality of care at risk, NHS workers reveal…
A new poll published by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has discovered seven in 10 (69 per cent) NHS workers believe staffing and resource reductions are placing clinical standards and quality of patient care at risk. In conjunction with YouGov, the poll of 500 workers – part of a joint report ‘NHS: Warnings from All […]
Autumn Statement announces revenue plans to save care home crisis…
Local authorities now have the opportunity to increase council tax bills by two per cent a year to make up for shortfall in social care costs, following the announcement in the recent Spending Review by Chancellor George Osborne. A recent article in The Telegraph reported that it remains at the discretion of each local authority […]
