A report by The Health Foundation has found that NHS England’s budget for 2024/25 of £164.9bn is essentially flat in real terms compared with the previous year.
Health services across the UK face the same operational and financial pressures. How are finance leaders in Wales meeting the challenges?
Hywel Dda University Health Board is having to face up to taking difficult decisions to support sustainable improvements.
As a commissioned service and provider body, Velindre University NHS Trust feels pressures slightly differently to the health boards.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget held two big announcements for the NHS.
Leaders of many the UK’s health think tanks and representative bodies have offered their assessments of this week’s spring Budget.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced £2.45bn of extra funding for the NHS in England in 2024/25 in his spring Budget.
In his spring Budget on 6 March, chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the NHS in England would receive an extra £2.5bn to cover its day-to-day running costs in 2024/25.
The NHS in Wales will receive an extra £40m in capital funding in 2024/25, compared with the original amount released in the draft budget at the end of last year, giving a total general capital allocation of £439m.
Wales’ final budget for 2024/25 revealed that the NHS will see a £40m increase in capital funding on the figure in the draft budget in December.