Kings Fund

Fears sparked as a widening funding gap between acute hospitals and mental health care providers emerges

The King’s Fund recently published a report which showed a widening funding gulf between acute hospitals and mental health trusts.  The slow rate of funding growth for mental health trusts and the preferential use of the Sustainability and Transformation Fund to stabilise financial and operational performance has widened the funding gap between NHS mental health …

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The King’s Fund loses its Chair

King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s Chair resigns in protest over underfunding of health care services. According to the Guardian, Lord Kerslake contended that due to severe Government underfunding that ‘hospitals cannot perform their key role properly’. Since taking on responsibility for Bromley’s Princess Royal University hospital in 2014, the Trust has struggled to cope alongside …

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