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RCP appoints new clinical director for
Prime minister announces extra
£1.8 billion for NHS frontline services Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has confirmed a new £1.8 billion NHS cash injection in a bid to help improve patient care. The cash injection is intended to deliver more beds, new cutting-edge equipment and additional wards at hospitals across the country. Visiting a Lincolnshire hospital on 5 August 2019, Boris Johnson announced the 20 hospitals set to share £850 million of new funding to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment. The Prime Minister also confirmed a £1 bn boost to NHS capital spending, allowing existing upgrade programmes to proceed and tackling the most urgent infrastructure projects. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said:
“The NHS is always there for us – free at the point of use for everyone in the country. “With our doctors and nurses working tirelessly day in day out, this treasured institution truly showcases the very best of Britain. “That’s why I made it my immediate task to
make sure frontline services have the funding they need, to make a real difference to the lives of NHS staff, and above all, of patients.” The £1.8 bn funding is in addition to the extra £33.9 bn, in cash terms, the NHS is set to receive every year by 2023/24 through the Long Term Plan, agreed last year. Over £1 bn of this will be spent this year, meaning an annual increase in the NHS’s capital budget of 30%.
However, president of the Royal College of Physicians, Professor Andrew Goddard, said: “While 20 more hospitals may seem a significant investment, it is unfortunately a drop in the ocean. Research by the Health Foundation estimates it would take an extra £3.5 bn a year to bring capital spending on the health service in England up to the OECD average.
“[The] announcement is certainly a small step in the right direction, but it’s a far cry from the great leap it will take to save our health service.”
digital health The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has appointed Dr Wajid Hussain as its new clinical director for digital health. Dr Hussain is a
consultant cardiologist
and cardiac electrophysiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. He is currently the associate chief clinical information officer for the Trust and represents clinicians’ views on its IT committee, helping to deliver the Trust’s digital transformation programme. Speaking on his appointment, Dr Wajid Hussain said: “I have always wanted to help facilitate change and have become increasingly focused on digital healthcare as a way of effecting that change. The role of RCP clinical director for digital health will enable me to do this on a national and international scale. “This is a unique role within a unique organisation, which has the ability to influence the whole healthcare system. I am hoping to be a bridge between clinicians and IT within and outside the organisation. I look forward to working closely with colleagues and stakeholders to further embed and develop this important work.”
SEPTEMBER 2019
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