This HSJ Efficiency Awards supplement showcases many of the projects that offer solutions to the NHS’s financial woes.
The intelligence and imagination highlighted here offer inspiration to other NHS leaders facing their own financial conundrums.
The third and largest HSJ Efficiency Awards to date, these finalists include projects of such a calibre that the judges repeatedly remarked on the fact that the quality of entries was greater than ever.
One of the NHS’s foremost finance figures has joined the chorus of senior healthcare leaders raising serious concerns about the damaging effect of the way the service’s annual planning round is conducted.
Close to £1bn has been raided from health capital funding this year to meet day-to-day pressures in tech and pay, documents published alongside the Budget reveal.
The Chancellor has announced above-inflation increases to NHS funding, although no agreement has yet been reached on what service levels must be achieved in exchange.
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