All Budget 2009 articles – Page 4

  • Comment

    Michael White on the NHS in recession

    2008-12-11T01:00:00Z

    A rough old trade is politics, as most MPs can confirm. All the same, I felt a bit sorry for Andrew Lansley the other week when he was beaten up for saying 'on many counts recession can be good for us'.

  • Comment

    Neil Goodwin on coping with recession in the NHS

    2008-12-08T01:00:00Z

    Recession. It's what everyone is talking about and it will affect you at some point. The boom years are now drawing to a close and public sector budgets are about to see their biggest squeeze in more than a decade.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: Andrew Lansley's recession comments

    2008-12-04T01:00:00Z

    Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley does not make headlines that often, but this week he had no shortage of coverage after he wrote on an official Conservative party website that recession 'can be good for us' because people tend to smoke and booze less, eat less rich food and spend ...

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS in recession: when good times turn bad

    2008-12-01T01:00:52Z

    New hospitals on hold, health workers striking and severe underfunding were all effects of previous recessions. Andy Cowper ask what the latest crisis may mean for the NHS

  • News

    Warning that cuts will come as recession pushes up demand

    2008-11-27T09:00:00Z

    Cuts to the planned NHS allocation for 2010-11 will come at a time of increased demand for health services caused by the ill effects of recession, managers are warning.

  • Comment

    Michael White on the NHS budget

    2008-11-27T09:00:00Z

    I don't think I heard the word 'NHS' more than once during the chancellor's emergency budget - for that is what it was - on Monday.

  • News

    NHS braced for worst of Alistair Darling's £5bn spending cuts

    2008-11-27T09:00:00Z

    The NHS must prepare for a substantial cut in planned funding from the year after next.Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report set out plans to cut £5bn from government spending plans for 2010-11 - and the NHS is the largest of 12 areas that could be hit.

  • Comment

    Andrew Jones on healthcare in a recession

    2008-11-24T09:00:00Z

    We might not officially be in recession, but few would doubt the inevitability of a second quarter of negative growth being confirmed by the Office for National Statistics.