Wednesday 19 December 2018

DHSC accounts mask reality of funding pressures, warns MPs

DHSC accounts mask reality of funding pressures, warns MPs The financial sustainability of health and social care is a serious and ongoing concern of the Committee.

The Department of Health and Social Care’s 2017-18 annual report and accounts suggests an improvement in fortunes when taken as a whole. But this masks the underlying deficits at a local level and the continued use of short term measures to reduce individual deficits, such as use of the sustainability and transformation fund and money to help with winter pressures.

This overall figure also fails to show the regional variations and balancing act between the different health bodies. Public Accounts Committee

See also:

No comments:

Post a Comment