Poorest parts of England to get £2.2bn more for NHS to cut care inequalities | Health
The poorest areas of England will obtain billions of additional health funds within the framework of new government plans to combat inequalities that have access to healthcare and health care.
The NHS services in private and coastal places will receive an increase of 2.2 billion pounds sterling this year to pay more staff and equipment to help them fill the wide difference in resources between them and the wealthy areas.
Wes Street, the Secretary of Health, will announce the move on Wednesday and greet him as an important step to ensure that all patients get the same level of care wherever they live.
In a discourse in Blackpool, he will denounce that areas with the highest levels of illness and the need for care often have a small number of general practitioners, the longest expectations for the treatment and services of the poorest NHS, a long -standing phenomenon known as “reverse care law”.
It will represent the most 2.2 billion sterling books this year as a decomposition on a major redistribution of NHS financing, which aims to improve the NHS in disadvantaged areas. “The truth is that those who most need to often require the worst quality health care.
“It flies in front of the values on which the NHS was founded. The circumstances of your birth should not determine your value, “he should say.
The 2.2 billion pounds sterling are money that was to be given to the 215 health trust in England for the “reduction in the deficit” – to cover budgetary expenses – but was released because Sir Jim Mackey, CEO of NHS England, told them to balance their books.
Street ordered an examination of the Carr-Hill formula, which is used to decide on the allocation of GP funding. The examination, involving the Advisory Committee for the Allocation of Resources, will examine the means to ensure that the places with more diseases get more money.
The Nuffield Trust said that the formula is “inequitable”, “deeply imperfect” and does not take into account the levels of deprivation in areas covered by GP practices. The examination will be the fourth exercise of this type since the formula was used in 2004, without major modifications which result, he stressed.
Dr. Becks Fisher, general practitioner and director of research and policies at Nuffield Trust Thinktank, also warned that if “the government plans to pay these changes by making in other parts of the NHS, nothing guarantees that this will succeed.”
Louise Gittins, the president of premises Government Association, said: “It is estimated that health inequalities would cost the NHS 4.8 billion additional sterling per year, the company around 31 billion pounds sterling in lost productivity, and between 20 billion pounds sterling and 32 billion pounds sterling per year in tax and profits. Health is therefore a major determinant of economic performance and prosperity. ”
Professor Kate Pickett, expert in health inequality at the University of York and University Director of North Health, said that the last years had brought a “goodest health and more inequality and a greater North-South fracture.
“We have repeatedly called upon the government to target expenses in places that need it most. Thus, Wes Streting’s desire to increase health spending in the most disadvantaged places is welcome. ”
But, she added, the ministers should also cancel the planned reductions in social benefits and start a public discussion on the merits of basic income to improve the health of the population in poor areas.
