22 July 2009

NHS

Extending professional and occupational regulation: the report of the Working Group on Extending Professional Regulation (16th July 2009)
This is the final report of the Extending Professional Regulation Working Group. The Working Group arose from a recommendation in the White Paper Trust, Assurance, Safety. The Report makes recommendation to Government as to how decision making on extending regulation could be taken forward. Any recommendations which are progressed and which involve a change of policy would require public consultation, equality and economic impact assessment, and be subject to the costs being affordable within available resources.
Report

How cold will it be? Prospects for NHS funding: 2011-2017 (20th July 2009)
NHS spending in England may have more than doubled in real terms since 1999/2000, but the prospects for future funding now look bleak. Although there is consensus that the NHS faces a tough financial future, there is no agreement about just how cold the financial climate will be. Starting with a look at historical funding for the NHS, The King’s Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies set out three plausible future funding scenarios and their consequences. The paper concludes with an assessment of each scenario and the options for funding up to 2017.
Paper


From Feast to Famine. Reforming the NHS for an age of austerity (July 2009)
Over the past two years the Social Market Foundation (SMF) Health project has examined the future of the NHS in the coming decade, in the face of demographic, technological and now economic change. in the context of a crisis in public finances the final report looks again at the sustainability of tax funding, and asks how an equitable health system can be safeguarded in the years ahead. The report examines whether new measures should be taken to manage demand for health services to relieve pressure on the NHS.
Report

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