Priorities for the NHS in 2018/19 and beyond The Budget on 22 November 2017 contained some obvious good news for the NHS: it provided more money, if not as much as we hoped. With more money comes the inevitable re-set of NHS plans and the new planning guidance came out on 2 February.
This is desperately late in the day given the new financial year starts on 1 April but was inevitable given the financial settlement for the NHS changed so significantly at the last minute. In theory, the government is supposed to issue its Mandate for the NHS first, which the planning guidance then translates into actions for the NHS. There has been no new Mandate. While this might appear to represent a risk – that the guidance may need to change once the Mandate is finally released – realistically its contents must have been agreed with both the Department and HM Treasury anyway.
I’ll run through some of the key changes around money, performance and reform. However, it is perhaps what the guidance did not say that really matters and I’ll cover this at the end. The King's Fund
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