After industrial action continued into autumn, with junior doctors and consultants in England taking joint strike action for the first time ever.
NHS capital budgets will need to nearly double over the three years of the next spending review to clear the building repairs backlog.
Place-based working is key to the success of systems and a recent HFMA roundtable, supported by Newton, explored the components needed.
NHS capital budgets will need to increase by £6.4bn a year to clear the service’s backlog maintenance and improve productivity.
The NHS won't be able to deliver faster and more productive patient care unless capital budgets are nearly doubled to at least £14.1bn, according to analysis from the NHS Confederation.
NHS representative bodies decried the chancellor’s autumn statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ with tax cuts paid for by a squeeze on public services.
Ahead of the autumn statement the NHS Confederation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies called for investment in NHS capital.
The government’s new hospital programme faced further criticism this week when MPs said they had no confidence it would deliver the promised hospitals
The Public Accounts Committee has published a highly critical report about the lack of progress in the government new hospital programme.
An NHS capital strategy will now not be published until summer next year. The strategy was originally intended to be published in autumn 2020.