article_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson is the latest expert to warn that Ed Miliband’s plans will not provide enough cash to keep Health Service going.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David replacement as chief executive Simon Stevens drew up a £30billion five-year rescue package called Forward View which the Conservatives and Lib Dems have both pledged to implement.
article_snippet.sent: a £30billion five-year rescue package called Forward View which the Conservatives and Lib Dems have both pledged to implement involves Tory NHS finding £22billion in savings but also needs an extra £8billion funding by 2020.
article_snippet.sent: ‘all the political parties haven’t said the £8billion, it would be helpful, I think, for Tory NHS if all the political parties did.
article_snippet.sent: Mike Dixon, a leading GP and chairman of the NHS Alliance, said Mike Dixon, a leading GP and chairman of the NHS Alliance was ‘extremely worried by the lack of political consensus around the £8billion funding’.
article_snippet.sent: Mike Dixon, a leading GP and chairman of the NHS Alliance added: ‘NHS leaders have been clear that this is the minimum amount needed to maintain current service provision.
article_snippet.sent: this is the minimum amount needed to maintain current service provision’s not rocket science to predict the impact on Tory NHS if this commitment is not met.
article_snippet.sent: Patients would face longer waits, services would face severe cuts and rationing, and many hospitals and GP practices would struggle to survive in many hospitals and GP practices current form.
article_snippet.sent: Tory NHSsays Tory NHS needs' Chris Ham, chief executive of the King’s Fund think-tank, said: ‘The big question is about funding, with Labour the only one of the three main parties not to have pledged to find the £8billion in additional funding called for in the NHS five-year Forward View.
article_snippet.sent: Given this is the minimum if Tory NHS is to continue to meet patient needs and maintain standards of care, this leaves a significant gap at the heart of this plans.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Sir David warned that the scale of the impending cash crisis was so great that the Tories and Lib Dems would have to rein in plans to expand services, despite being committed to the £8billion.
article_snippet.sent: Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said a planned shake-up of NHS services by Labour meant the ‘funding gap...may be smaller’.