Steve Brown
Healthcare Finance editor
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Hywel Dda University Health Board is having to face up to taking difficult decisions to support sustainable improvements.
As a commissioned service and provider body, Velindre University NHS Trust feels pressures slightly differently to the health boards.
Finance directors have issued a plea for greater realism in the expectations placed on the service along with greater flexibility to spend resources.
NHS costing in England will now enter a new phase with a focus on using the data rather than further developing the methodology.
Costing will in future be all about use of the data, but fundamental questions remain
The savings identified in the three-year financial plans submitted by Scottish health boards in 2023/24 will not be sufficient for them to break even.