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.
A report from the NHS Confederation, Unlocking reform and financial sustainability: NHS payment mechanisms for the integrated care age, identified three payment models, which could be considered as part of a change to financial incentives and could help to unlock local service reform.
The GP contract 2024/25 aims to cut bureaucracy and help practices with cash flow.
From the beginning of March, dentists will benefit from extra payments for seeing new NHS patients.
Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann used a keynote speech to the Royal College of General Practitioners (NI) to warn of an ‘extremely difficult and worsening’ financial position for health and social care services in the country.
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.
Trust leaders set out five priorities for the next government in a report released by NHS Providers.
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.
The Introduction to NHS Finance event is designed to give a basic grasp of how the NHS works and how it’s financed
NHS Wales is to benefit from £10m in additional capital funding to upgrade scanning equipment and digital infrastructure.