The NHS: Where Does All the Money Go?
Part 11: Trying to Find a Way Forward
As many of you know, we have been investigating the structural and funding complexities of England's National Health Service (NHS). We have looked at the funding streams declared to Parliament and identified the various national and local bodies that comprise the NHS. We initially hoped that reviewing these funding streams and the websites of individual entities would clarify how everything fits together. This shows how naive we were.
The NHS: Where does all the money go?
The UK Prime Minister says there can be no extra NHS funding without reform. At the same time, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, says the Department of Health and Social Care policy is that the NHS is broken.
We soon began uncovering aspects hidden from view, such as inconsistencies in budget estimates and various quirks we've attempted to illustrate in our posts. We're discovering issues, such as these organisations' aims and priorities, are pretty complex. Deconstructing them has proven to be a significant task. We have reached the point where we need to provide a preliminary summary, warts and all.
Given the volume of comments we've received on this series, we thought it would be productive to first list the main bodies, their functions, and their performa…
