NHS budgets

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

....... TBH, I still feel my information is shakey but my friend said as far as she is aware, this year is budgeted for, next year is planned for and looking possible but difficult, but the year after is anyones guess. ............

I should have more faith in my friends I suppose


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5485814/NHS-will-face-15bn-budget-shortfall-due-to-effects-of-recession-managers-warn.html

The report said in the five years from 2011, the predicted lower increases in budgets and the impact of the recession coupled with rising costs mean it is likely the NHS will face a real terms shortfall of £15bn.

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I don't understand, they are printing money to try prop up house prices, why not just extend this policy to save the NHS ?, oh hang on a minute....

MyLastFiver

This could have been predicted. "Oh no! We haven't got enough money to look after people when they're ill. Damn that worldwide recesssion that we definitely didn't create. No sir. Wasn't us."

There wasn't a "funding shortfall" to bail out the banks, was there? Or to start wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

No. There's plenty of money for those things. But pensions? Healthcare? Oh dear - there's no money left.

CLAPTON

It's a non story ..long before 2011 the Conservatives will be in power and they will massively increase funding for the NHS and schools, reverse Brown raid on pensions and pay for this by remanding our money back from the banks... then they will be in power for the rest of the century.