Our Quarterly Monitoring Report examines the views of finance directors on the productivity challenge they face, as well as some key NHS performance data to see how the NHS is performing.
QMR 16 | July 2015
How is the NHS performing?
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“Rising costs, cuts in the payments they receive for treating patients and increasing demand make 2015/16 the most challenging year for NHS providers this century.”
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66%66% of trusts are forecasting a deficit by the end of 2015/16 – the highest proportion since we began surveying in 2011.
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75%Three-quarters of NHS trust finance directors are planning to increase the number of permanent nursing staff in the next six months.
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71k In the last quarter, 71,382 patients (7.2%) waited for more than four hours to be admitted into hospital from A&E – the highest number at this time of year for more than a decade.
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1 in 10 Only 1 in 10 NHS trust finance directors think that new controls will significantly reduce spending on agency staff.
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47% Less than half of mental health trusts are confident that commissioners will increase their funding in line with government commitments.
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