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731741

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with health professionals on the capped expenditure process.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>This Government has committed to increase National Health Service spending by a minimum of £8 billion in real terms over the next five years, and for the first time to deliver an increase in real funding per head of the population for every year of the Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>As with all public services, local NHS areas need to live within the budget agreed – otherwise they effectively take up resources that could be spent on general practitioners, mental health care, and cancer treatment. As part of their financial planning, NHS England and NHS Improvement have been running a process to look at how a small number of areas could do more to balance their financial plans, as many already have.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that these plans are consistent with constitutional standards on waiting times and patient choice. But it is right that the NHS should consider efficiency savings such as reducing delayed transfers of care, or reducing running costs – because this improves patient care overall.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 681 736 question first answered 30/06/2017 10:25:39 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

731742

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which criteria determine whether health economies are subject to capped expenditure processes.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>This Government has committed to increase National Health Service spending by a minimum of £8 billion in real terms over the next five years, and for the first time to deliver an increase in real funding per head of the population for every year of the Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>As with all public services, local NHS areas need to live within the budget agreed – otherwise they effectively take up resources that could be spent on general practitioners, mental health care, and cancer treatment. As part of their financial planning, NHS England and NHS Improvement have been running a process to look at how a small number of areas could do more to balance their financial plans, as many already have.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that these plans are consistent with constitutional standards on waiting times and patient choice. But it is right that the NHS should consider efficiency savings such as reducing delayed transfers of care, or reducing running costs – because this improves patient care overall.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 681 735 question first answered 30/06/2017 10:25:39 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders