Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust received final approval for its outline business case after showing increased use of modern methods of construction
Limiting capital spend inhibits systems’ opportunities to improve productivity
Local health boards in Wales have been allocated an extra £460m to help them meet ‘the most challenging financial pressure in recent history’.
The government wants to standardise the design and build of new hospitals with the aim of increasing consistency and saving money and time.
By the time you read, this we will be on the verge of the biggest NHS finance event of the year, which of course is the HFMA annual conference.
NHS capital budgets will need to nearly double over the three years of the next spending review to clear the building repairs backlog.
The government’s new hospital programme (NHP) has delivered slower progress and higher costs than expected.
The only way the NHS can address the significant challenges it faces is by working as one across system partners and professions.
Place-based working is key to the success of systems and a recent HFMA roundtable, supported by Newton, explored the components needed.
After industrial action continued into autumn, with junior doctors and consultants in England taking joint strike action for the first time ever.