Articles on a return to top-down control

£200m cuts to public health: the situation is getting serious

By NHS Support Federation | 16th June 2015

The Treasury’s announcement of a £200m cut to “non-NHS” funding has raised alarm bells amongst professional organisations from the Faculty of … Read more

Government announces £200m cuts to public health budget

By NHS Support Federation | 15th June 2015

Public health budgets are set to be slashed by £200m this year under a raft of measures to ‘bring down … Read more

£8million cut from Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust budget since 2011

By NHS Support Federation | 12th June 2015

Almost £8 million has been cut from mental health services in Kent in the past four years. The figures can … Read more

Stealth cuts to hospitals push the NHS into the red

By NHS Support Federation | 29th April 2015

Cuts to tariffs – the prices paid to hospitals for different medical procedures – are starving health trusts of income … Read more

Mental health trust funding down 8% from 2010 despite coalition’s drive for parity of esteem

By NHS Support Federation | 20th March 2015

Funding for NHS trusts to provide mental health services has fallen by more than 8% in real terms over the … Read more

Rationing in the NHS

By NHS Support Federation | 1st February 2015

This briefing sets out to highlight some of the key issues and dilemmas facing policy-makers and practitioners in the area … Read more

Children’s mental health services ‘cut by £50m’

By NHS Support Federation | 15th January 2015

NHS spending on children’s mental health services in England has fallen by more than 6% in real terms since 2010, … Read more

Deaths linked to mental health beds crisis as cuts leave little slack in system

By NHS Support Federation | 28th November 2014

At least eight people have died in the past two years after problems accessing psychiatric beds for mental health patients … Read more