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Tag Archives: Financing of Health Care
UK “Health at a Glance 2017” Using OECD Indicators (BBC News / OECD)
Summary The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Health at a Glance provides “the latest comparable data and trends on the performance of health systems in OECD countries”. Britain appears to be the “most obese nation” in Western Europe, … Continue reading
Posted in Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Access to Treatment, Alcohol Consumption, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Delayed Discharges, Epidemiology, European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), European Health, European Union (EU), Finance, Financial Context, Financial Issues, Financing of Health Care, Health Expenditure, Health: Financing, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, Life Expectancy, Men vs. Women (Diseease Prevalence), Mortality, NHS Workforce, Obesity, OECD, OECD Health Policy Studies, OECD Indicators, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Overweight, Public Health, Smoking, Social Epidemiology
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More Spent on the NHS Than Previously Thought (BMJ / BBC News)
Summary Previous estimates concerning the proportion of UK GDP spent on the NHS were probably on the low side: Full Text Link (Note: This article requires a suitable Athens password, a journal subscription or payment for access). Reference Appleby, J. … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, International, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountability and Integration, Achieving Better Value, BBC Health News, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Commissioning for Value, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Savings, Evidence Versus Mythology, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Finland, France, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, Funding Reform, Germany, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care: Delivering a Secure Funding Future, Health Care Spending as a Percentage of GDP, Health Spending in EU (15 Countries), Italy, Myth-Busting, Mythology of the Times, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Funding Gap, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Spain, Sustainability, Sweden, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures
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NHS Model(s) of Care Essential for Ageing Population (NHS England / Guardian)
Summary Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, has written about the NHS needing a revised model of care to meet rising demands for treatment from an ageing population. The existing model of delivery and service, involving an … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Integration, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Enhanced Services from GPs, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, GP Surgeries, Gridlock (Under-Capacity) in A&E Departments / Hospitals, Guardian, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Reconfiguration, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Out of Hours Services, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Care Services, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures
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Government Pledges a Further Two Billion for the NHS (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary There has been an early announcement that the Government is to make an extra £2 billion for the health service next year. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday is expected to explain how the extra funding will be for … Continue reading
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More on Extra Funding Requirements for the NHS? (BBC News / King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund has proposed that the NHS in England probably needs £2 billion more next year, given the extent of deteriorating performance on some targets and the rising numbers of NHS trust deficits. The King’s Fund briefing has … Continue reading
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Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Fair Access to Care (FACS), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Select Committee, Health: Financing, House of Commons Health Committee, Integration of Health and Social Care, Minimum Staffing Levels, Monitor, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, Nurse Staffing Levels, Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Staffing (Hospitals), Taxation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding
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Brief Guide to the New NHS (NHS England)
Summary This updated guide, from NHS England, clarifies the structure and function of the NHS, reflecting changes from the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Topic headings include: Introduction The NHS belongs to us all. Foreword (Sir Bruce Keogh). NHS … Continue reading
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NHS England Funding Shortfall? (BBC News)
Summary NHS England is reported to be facing a funding gap of up to £2 billion in its budget for the next financial year. Full Text Link Reference Pym, H. (2014). NHS England ‘facing funding gap of up to £2bn’. … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BBC Health News, Commissioning Budgets, Cost Savings, Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Financing of Health Care, Funding Deficits, Health: Financing, Monitor, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Spending, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, Nuffield Trust on NHS Wales (2014), Protection of NHS Spending
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2015 Challenge Declaration (NHS Confederation)
Summary This NHS Confederation report examines challenges for the NHS: The need challenge. The culture challenge. The design challenge. The finance challenge. The leadership challenge. The workforce challenge. Full Text Link Reference The 2015 Challenge Declaration. London: NHS Confederation, May … Continue reading
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