🔴 NHS trusts are preparing to cut back on weekend and evening operations as hospitals come under unprecedented financial pressure, theipaper has been told
for women under 40 who have not conceived in two years. In reality, very few do.
Mr Anandaciva said: “You will see the impact play out differently in different parts of the country. Some trusts may reduce service offers like how many rounds of NHS-funded IVF are offered. The notable exception in the past was when the NHS had a nationally ‘managed breach’ of planned elective care like knee and hip operations.
“Once again there is likely to be a strong temptation to cut capital budgets, cut the long-term investment in the future workforce and cut public health spending. But this would confine us to a downward spiral.”In July,that patients will start being turned away due to delays in repairing hospital buildings.
“Trusts might have to limit services in smaller paediatric units or emergency departments given the relatively higher costs they face compared to larger hospitals or scale back vital healthcare transformation, for example in maternity services or to bolster long Covid care. There are no winners in this situation.”
Professor Karol Sikora, a cancer expert in the private sector, this week suggested patients start paying for things like an ultrasounds or MRI scans in the face of diagnostic delays, which he called “the real root cause of our dreadful cancer survival statistics”.
“If additional pandemic funds are factored in, we have seen a particularly large decline in NHS spending per head from 2021 onwards. Even if the budget is kept the same in cash terms at the Autumn Statement, the drop after the pandemic will mean an 18 per cent cut to Department of Health and Social Care spending per head between 2021-22 and 2024-25,. Higher inflation may make this picture even worse.
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