Health Management and Policy Alert

The state of NHS finances 2024/25

NHS Confederation - 
This report examines the financial challenge facing NHS organisations in 2024/25 and finds that the number one challenge facing NHS leaders and their staff is how they balance their books while protecting patient safety given many organisations are having to achieve significant efficiency savings. The survey of NHS leaders carried out by the NHS Confederation shows that many NHS organisations are having to meet high efficiency targets of 5% and beyond, with some as high as 11%. This is the tightest financial position NHS organisations have faced in years.

• Report

Taking stock of the Government’s delivery plan for recovering primary care: one year on review

PAGB - 
The Self-Care Strategy Group, founded by PAGB in 2019 with representatives of leading pharmacy and healthcare organisations, has published a report marking one year since the launch of NHS England's Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care. The delivery plan, published in May 2023, has been framed as a first step to address access challenges ahead of longer-term reforms to better integrate primary care. This new one year on report reviews progress to date and makes recommendations to build upon the commitments in the plan to improve support for people to self-care.

• Report
• Summary

A preventative approach to public services: how the government can shift its focus and improve lives

Institute for Government - 

This report sets out how the next government can use the opportunity of a new parliament to shift to a preventative approach to public services that seeks to address and manage citizens’ problems before they reach crisis point. This would reap financial and political benefits by helping tackle the crises in the NHS, criminal justice, youth services and beyond – and lead to happier and healthier lives for millions.

• Report
• More detail

 

Reverse the trend: reducing type 2 diabetes in young people

Diabetes UK - 

This report reveals a 40% rise in type 2 diabetes diagnoses in younger people between 2016-17 and 2022-23. There are now almost 168,000 people under 40 years in the UK who live with type 2 diabetes, an increase of more than 47,000 since 2016-17. Diabetes UK is calling on all political parties to commit to tackling the alarming rise in cases of type 2 diabetes among people aged under 40 years.

• Report
• Press release

 

Community pharmacy primary care network engagement role

NHS England - 

The community pharmacy primary care network (PCN) engagement lead role has been established to support the regional implementation of the pharmacy Primary Care Access Recovery Plan (PCARP) requirements, including implementing the Pharmacy First Service and expanding the Blood Pressure Checks Service and Pharmacy Contraception Service.

• Guidance
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Global oncology trends 2024: outlook to 2028

IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science - 

Latest estimates indicate that the number of patients affected by cancer will increase dramatically through the middle of the century across all regions of the world. At the same time, the innovation ecosystem that discovers, develops, and delivers breakthrough therapies in entire new areas of science is operating near peak levels. Rising incidence, increasing numbers of treated patients, and the resulting expected growth in spending in this area will trigger an array of complex challenges over the next several years that are reflected in the trends highlighted in this report.

• Report
• More detail

 

 

Making prevention everyone’s business: a transformational approach to personalised prevention in England

Department of Health and Social Care -
This report sets out the recommendations of Professor John Deanfield, CBE, for a more ambitious prevention service, undertaken in his role as the inaugural Government Champion for Personalised Prevention between March 2023 and March 2024. It presents digital technologies as the key to delivering personalised prevention at scale and recommends that the government commit to the creation of a ‘digital-first National Prevention Service’, delivered through a new ‘one-stop shop’ digital health and wellness portal accessed through the NHS App.

• Report
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

Pre-election period considerations for NHS trusts and foundation trusts

NHS Providers -
This briefing sets out considerations for NHS foundation trusts and trusts in the period of time leading up to the general election on 4 July 2024. It highlights practical implications around providers’ activities and communications during the pre-election period. It also covers requirements on central and local government, the civil service and arm’s length bodies during the pre-election period to maintain political impartiality in carrying out public duties and ensuring that public resources are not used for the purposes of political parties or campaign groups.

• Briefing
• NHS Providers - publications

United against health inequalities: moving in the right direction

NHS Providers -
This report shares the results of a recent NHS Provider member survey, providing an update on the progress members have made in tackling health inequalities in the past three years.

• Briefing
• NHS Providers - publications

What do the public want politicians to do about the NHS?

The King's Fund -
Polls show that the NHS will be the number one issue for voters in the general campaign. But what do the public want politicians to do about the NHS?

• Blog
• The King's Fund - blogs