The poorest regions in England will get billions of billions in additional health financing under new government plans to tackle outstanding inequality in obtaining health results and health results.
NHS services in the disadvantaged and coastal places will get a batch of 2.2 billion pounds this year to pay more employees and equipment to help them bridge the wide gap in the resources between them and the wonderful areas.
Wes Streeting, the Minister of Health, will announce this step on Wednesday and pushing it as an important step towards ensuring that all patients get the same level of care wherever they are.
In a letter in Blackpool, it will excel that areas with the highest levels of disease and the need for care often have low numbers of GPSThe longest awaiting treatment and the poorest NHS services, a long -term phenomenon known as the “reverse care law”.
It will shoot 2.2 billion pounds this year as a decline in a significant redistribution of NHS financing, which aims to improve NHS in the disadvantaged areas. “The truth is that those who need greater often receive the worst health care.
“He is flying in the face of the values on which NHS was founded. The conditions of your birth should not be determined,” he is expected to say.
2.2 billion pounds is the money that was to be delivered to the health funds in England 215 in order to “reduce the deficit” – to cover an increase in the budget – but it was released because Sir Jim Maki, CEO of NHS England, asked them to balance their books.
I ordered the street a Car Hill formula reviewIt is used to determine the customization of GP financing. The review, which involves the advisory committee for resource allocation, will be studied ways to ensure that the affected places have more diseases.
The formula said the formula is “unusual”, “very defective” and does not take into account the levels of deprivation in the areas covered by GP practices. He pointed out that the review will be the fourth such as the formula was used in 2004, without significant changes resulting.
Dr. Pix Fisher, a general manager and director of research and politics at Nuffield Trust Test
“It is estimated that the health inequality costs NHS in an additional 4.8 billion pounds annually, and a community of about 31 billion pounds in productivity, between 20 billion pounds and 32 billion pounds annually from tax revenues and interest payments,” said Luiz Gits, President of the Local Government Association. health Therefore, it is the main determinant of economic performance and prosperity. “
Professor Kate Pique, an expert in health inequality at the University of York and the Director of Northern Health Stocks, said recent years have brought “worse health and more inequality and greater division than the north and south.
“The government has repeatedly called the government to target spending on the most needy places. So the Wes Streeting campaign to increase health spending in the most deprived places is very welcome.”
But she added that the ministers should also cancel the planned discounts of social welfare benefits and start a general discussion on the advantages of the basic income to improve the health of the population in bad areas.
