Although its budget was protected in the 2010 Spending Review, the NHS faces the tightest financial settlement in its history. To avoid reducing quality and making significant cuts to services, it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015. Reductions in the prices paid to hospitals for treating ...
As part of its work on the pressures faced by the NHS, The King’s Fund published its first Quarterly Monitoring Report in April this year. This is the third report and it aims to provide a
regular update on how the NHS is coping as it tackles the evolving reform ...