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Steve Brown
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Some hospitals in the government’s new hospital programme may no longer be required to follow a standardised design.
The HFMA has backed plans to simplify the valuation of hospital buildings, but raised concern about the impact on trusts' financial positions.
Systems receiving funding to cover planned deficits in 2023/24 will still be treated as if they have overspent and funding will be repayable.
NHS systems in England have been issued a set of interim draft planning assumptions for 2024/25 while they await final planning guidance for the year.
Future funding should be targeted at primary and community care as part of a radical refocusing of the health system, according to the King’s Fund.
The NHS in Scotland will need to increase staff and spending, boost productivity or live with a relative deterioration in service quality.