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How cold will it be?
— Prospects for NHS funding: 2011-17 | | Author(s) | John Appleby, Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson |
| Corporate Author | King's Fund; Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS |
| Publisher | King's Fund, London, 2009 |
| Pages | 27 pp |
| Source | King's Fund, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. Website: www.kingsfund.org.uk |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Finance [care] ; Public expenditure. |
| Annotation | Funding of the National Health Service (NHS) has increased greatly since 1999/2000, but prospects for future funding now look bleak. This paper analyses the consequences for the NHS, other spending departments and taxation of three possible funding futures for the English NHS from 2011/12 to 2015/17: "tepid" (annual real increases of 2% for the first three years, increasing to 3% for the final three years); "cold" (zero real change, which is the lowest level of funding compatible with a pledge made by the Conservative Party); and "arctic" (annual real reductions of 2% for the first three years, falling to 1% for the final three years). This paper looks at historic trends in NHS funding and Wanless's funding projections. It considers the consequences of the three funding scenarios, and assesses the realism of each. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091106005 B |
| Classmark | L4: QC: WN8 |
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