CONSULTANCY
A new report has highlighted the extent to which public spending has shifted dramatically towards health over recent decades.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies report shows that despite current financial pressures, the NHS will still receive a massive chunk of public funding – by 2015, health will account for almost a third of all UK government spending.
The IFS looked at trends in government spending and found that it has shifted from being largely spent on defence and housing to health and social security in recent years.
Paul Johnson, the director of the influential think tank, said: “The way the state spends our money has shifted to a remarkable extent towards spending on health and so- cial security over the past 30 years.”
However, demands on these services will grow as our population continues to age, and cuts in government spending will make the future more difficult for the NHS. Jo Webber, from the NHS Confederation, warned: “It will require some really tough decisions about how we plan and deliver services.”
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YHEC meeting current and former staff members, and enjoying the academic and social discourse.”
York Health Economics Consor- tium (YHEC) celebrated its 25th anniversary in September with an event at the University of York.
Staff past and present and friends and associates gathered to reflect on YHEC’s achievements and to hear presentations from the Con- sortium’s current director, Profes- sor John Hutton, as well as Mike Farrar (Chief Executive, NHS Con- federation), Simon Morritt (Chief Executive, Sheffield Children’s Hospital), and Professor Trevor Sheldon (Chair of the YHEC Board of Directors).
Professor Hutton commented: “It was good to see so many supporters and collaborators of
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YHEC was established in 1986 to provide economic research capac- ity to the NHS. Despite consider- able change in the NHS over this time, YHEC has grown and more recently the portfolio has expand- ed to include applied research in the health sector and cost-effec- tiveness modelling for private sec- tor health care companies.
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