Backlash after Budget fails to provide extra funds for social care
Chancellor Philip Hammond is facing a backlash from senior Conservative party members by failing to address growing concerns regarding extra funding for social care. Attempting to hold off a winter NHS meltdown, the Chancellor handed out a £35m bailout with extra £1.6bn scheduled for 2018. However, experts have said that the funding is around half […]
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 […]
