Redirecting investment towards primary and social care would help recovery across the NHS, especially in secondary care, say David Haslam and David Pendleton
The NHS needs better funding.
Almost every analysis of the current crisis indicates that the UK’s healthcare funding relative to our peers in other high income nations has resulted in fewer healthcare professionals per head of population, poor quality infrastructure, and scarcity of essential equipment, particularly magnetic resonance imaging scanners.123 Even the current chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt, while chair of the Health Select Committee, wrote “surely we need to find a longer term, more strategic approach to funding our health and social care system.”4 It is critical that investment isn’t directed only at the short term crisis, however politically attractive this might be.
Would an injection of funds ensure sustainability …
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Professor Sir David Haslam and Professor David Pendleton, co-chairs of Henley Business School NHS Symposium, argue that going forwards the NHS needs to prioritise primary care and social care if it is to meet the demands of Britain today and keep people healthier for longer.