Tag: investment

The state of NHS estates

NHS efforts to deliver national priorities including elective recovery and improvements in productivity are being put at risk because of a damaging lack of investment in buildings and facilities, a report by NHS Providers has found. It argues major capital investment is crucial to enabling trusts to improve productivity, operational performance and patient care across all sectors. The report can be found here.

No more sticking plasters: repairing and transforming the NHS estate (nhsproviders.org)

Public Health

Identifying The Gap: Understanding The Drivers Of Inequality In Public Health

This report aims to provide insights into the historical challenges and approaches taken to tackle the problems affecting public health. Key findings include the need for: longer-term funding and commissioning cycles, investment in the public health workforce; and for public health to be recognised and valued as an integral part of the integrated care system.

NHS Providers

Mental health services: meeting the need for capital investment

There has been prolonged under-investment in facilities across the English NHS. However, while restricted capital funding is affecting all sectors of the NHS, there is a particular need for capital investment within the mental health sector. This briefing summarises the findings of a survey NHS Providers sent to NHS mental health trusts and foundation trusts to gather further evidence on the sector’s capital funding needs, to support the case they are making for the sector to receive its fair share of capital investment in future.

Read the report here