{"id":381290,"date":"2018-10-17T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-crisis-facing-uk-national-health-service-as-deficits-grow\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:01:30","slug":"national-crisis-facing-uk-national-health-service-as-deficits-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-crisis-facing-uk-national-health-service-as-deficits-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNational crisis\u201d facing UK National Health Service as deficits grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>\u201cNational crisis\u201d facing UK National Health Service as deficits grow<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Ben Trent<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In the latest quarterly report of NHS Improvement (NHSI), the combined forecast deficit of NHS trusts stands at a staggering \u00a3519 million.<\/p>\n<p>NHSI is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as \u201cindependent providers\u201d operating within the NHS. This figure has been deemed \u201cunaffordable\u201d by NHSI. Trusts across England were already at a total deficit of \u00a3814 million at the close of June, roughly \u00a380 million worse than the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>NHSI has noted that providers, for the first time, are carrying an underlying deficit of around \u00a34.3 billion, if the non-recurrent \u201cprovider sustainability fund\u201d is discounted.<\/p>\n<p>The report details how successful trusts have been in trying to mitigate the continued cutting back of resources and the challenges faced\u2014especially the continuation of the three-year trend in increased demand of an ageing population. The report details a 3.7 percent increase of A&amp;E [Accident and Emergency] admissions from the same quarter in 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims that two thirds of providers met budgeted targets last year, the deficit at the end of 2017\/18 came in at \u00a3966 million. With the declaration by NHS Improvement that the current target is insufficient, the report states, \u201cNHS Improvement and NHS England regional colleagues have been working with the most challenged health economies to identify actions to close the residual local planning gap.\u201d In other words, already punitively reduced services need to be cut back even more.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings Fund charity has demonstrated the impact of austerity measures on the NHS since they began to take effect in the financial year 2009-10.<\/p>\n<p>The think tank reported that in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/16\/trus-o16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cNational crisis\u201d facing UK National Health Service as deficits grow By Ben Trent 16 October 2018 In the latest quarterly report of NHS Improvement (NHSI), the combined forecast deficit of NHS trusts stands at a staggering \u00a3519 million. NHSI is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as \u201cindependent providers\u201d operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}