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The financial position of the NHS has worsened since 2012-13, with growing financial stress in NHS trusts and foundation trusts.  According to the National Audit Office, these trends are not sustainable.  At the end of June 2014, NHS trusts were forecasting a net deficit for the current financial year of £404m and foundation trusts a net deficit of £108m.  This compares with initial plans of a net deficit of £425m for NHS trusts and £20m for foundation trusts.

• NAO:  The financial sustainability of NHS bodies
• NAO:  Funding healthcare: Making allocations to local areas
• TKF:  Response to the National Audit Office’s report on the Better Care Fund
• The NHS is not the only ‘care service’ with a funding ‘Black Hole’
• But every year there is a call for more money for the NHS and an A&E Winter Crisis!
• Hospitals are too expensive for anything but specialist ‘non-mobile’ treatment
• Better integrated care could save the NHS £ms - toolkits
• Major new report on digital technology
• Personalised health & care 2020: a framework for action