What issues need to be addressed in this year's planning round to enable the NHS to deliver the best possible service and financial performance?
The NHS in Wales needs a 10-year capital investment plan to reshape its estate and infrastructure to boost productivity and help address the backlog.
The Scottish government has introduced a pathway for head and neck cancer that will give patients a cancer diagnosis more quickly.
NHS England has today published a letter addressed to executive leads from integrated care boards and trusts asking them to start planning for next year using their financial allocations for 2024/25.
The Welsh government has unveiled its draft budget for 2024/25, which includes an extra £450m for the NHS.
The Scottish government has unveiled its budget for 2024/45, which allocates more than £19.5bn to the nation’s NHS recovery, health and social care portfolio.
Higher than expected inflation has had an impact on revenue and capital budgets this year and this will carry into 2024/25 as an underlying pressure.
Local health boards in Wales have been allocated an extra £460m to help them meet ‘the most challenging financial pressure in recent history’.
The autumn statement was described as a ‘missed opportunity’ to improve NHS funding.
NHS representative bodies decried the chancellor’s autumn statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ with tax cuts paid for by a squeeze on public services.