Anita Charlesworth

The period from 2011 to 2014 is likely to be the most challenging ever faced by the NHS.  The new Operating Framework requires primary care trusts to hold 2 per cent of their allocations with SHAs. Allowing for this, the Nuffield Trust calculates that the recurrent resource available to PCTs to spend in 2011/12 will fall by 2.3 per cent on average in real terms, with a minimum cut of 0.3 per cent for some PCTs and as much as 2.5 per cent for others. Read more...