Also had a similar refusal. The Treasury is refusing to disclose what makes up the NHS's non-pay share of the 'black hole', which they claim is £1.5bn

Darzi quite scathing of Care Quality Commission in his review of NHS this AM: “Despite the highest level of hospital employment in the world, there appears to be no problem for which the CQC believes the solution is something other than to add more staff.”

Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown - previously deputy chair- is elected Public Accounts Committee chair

The NHS and department of health have raided capital budgets to pay for day to day spending in seven of the ten years since 2014. The only years where that didn't happen were during covid when NHS received big funding top-ups

On day of the Darzi review, Office for Budget Responsibility projects that health spending as a share of the economy will double over the next 50 years. It's the singlest bigger driver of government debt tripling. Whoever is in power will likely to hike taxes:

We should also acknowledge that behind this *enormous* clinical negligence bill are so many lives lost & ruined. This isn’t mere money. It’s maternity care so bad they regularly spend double the maternity budget on negligence claims. It’s death & life long v serious disability.

Good news for NHS United Lincs NHS United Lincs, which has been awarded teaching hospitals status ulh.nhs.uk/news/united-li…

The feudal system was of course characterised by parliamentary votes theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Former chief nurse Ruth May tells the covid inquiry that the coalition government's decision to scrap bursaries for student nurses was "catastrophic". Ms May says this effectively cost 5k nurses going into covid

Majority support for the view that the NHS needs to spend its money more effectively. Even Labour voters tied on whether NHS needs more money or whether it needs to spend what it has more effectively

Next steps on Labour pledge for 40,000 more NHS appointments a week will be confirmed after October's budget, says health minister. Clearly taking a long time to hammer out the details of what is meant to be flagship NHS policy

Very interesting. The public silence on this flagship policy shows that the inevitable DH/NHS/HMT tug of war is alive and well

Former minister Neil O'Brien says independence of NHS England, which was spun out of gov in 2012, has "gone too far". hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg…