NHS England have placed Greater Manchester NHS’s Integrated Care Board into Special Enforcement Measures as of April this year.
These measures will force the city region’s health system to make additional cuts to health spending, including reducing workforce numbers, due to the system not making the level of cuts and savings expected by central Government.
13 years of austerity and real term NHS funding cuts have left our healthcare system unable to balance budgets – the Government’s failure to provide appropriate funding has a knock-on effect across all public service providers, particularly in social care and the voluntary sector
We call on the Department for Health and Social Care to intervene to provide the necessary funding and ensure:
- No further workforce or service cuts in Greater Manchester. Protect frontline roles and the NHS support staff which make good patient care possible.
- Reverse proposed cuts to population health budgets. Investing well in preventative care was intended to secure the future good health of our city region’s population, and funding was initially ringfenced by the Tories – now they’re proposed to be cut by over 50%.
- No more spending on widescale private financial consultancy in the NHS. Paying firms like PwC and Carnal Farrar huge sums to provide reports on productivity and efficiency is not the best use of funds when we need more staff in departments delivering patient care.
- Full consultation with the public, and recognised trades unions, regarding any proposed reorganisation of Greater Manchester’s NHS services.
- Ensure any health funding gaps or projected deficits are resolved through additional national funding, not by reducing healthcare spending in NHS providers in the Greater Manchester City Region
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