The support offered to small employers on how to use the new immigration system will be especially useful in smaller NHS organisations including primary care. In addition, the workforce plan will need up to £1 bn extra a year in each of the next three years, public health will need an extra £3 bn, and an additional £1 bn a year will be needed for capital investment in the NHS. The Towns Fund and newly established Levelling Up Fund are also a welcomed development. Over 20 million people in the UK have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. We support the measures to encourage apprenticeships and traineeships. 4. requested by GP leaders to guarantee that patients can continue to access normal services and the GP and primary care workforce can be expanded. In 2021-22, investment in the Health and Sport Portfolio will increase to over £16 billion, with a further £869 million of funding to address pressures related to COVID-19. Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, noted that the budget statement is “a cause for alarm for the NHS and social care too.” Noting that the budget does not provide sufficient funding “to support the direct costs of managing COVID-19 in 2021/22 and beyond,” and raises major concerns about how the NHS will deal with the huge backlog of care, the increased demand for mental health services and make any sort of progress to modernisation or investment in the NHS’s workforce. These include the following: Despite the Chancellor’s promise to give the NHS ‘whatever resources’ it needed to get through the crisis, the 2021 Budget fails to acknowledge the huge toll the past year has taken on our key public services and its workforce. The need to increase the workforce beyond this is well rehearsed and articulated in our work with the Health Foundation. This builds on the £6 billion outlined in the Spending Review, but Health Foundation data suggests up to £27 billion may be needed in 2021/22 to support both the vaccination and Test and Trace programmes. Great reasons to register with NHS Confederation. Before the pandemic, the NHS was just entering the second year of the long-term plan, attached to which was real-terms funding growth of around 3.3% per year for NHS England’s budget (this excludes budgets for several other health-related services, including public health and health education). The conclusion is that without this investment, the NHS will not deliver the long term plan, nor will it be resilient enough to weather future health shocks. 2million people 'will still be on furlough' just before it ends. In planning for the longer term, we made clear to the Prime Minister that the government will need investment in public health, population health management and reducing the long-standing health inequalities that we know have contributed to the levels of infection, harm and death due to COVID-19 in our poorer and ethnic minority communities. Whilst the budget did not include any detailed plans for the NHS, the red book published alongside Sunak’s statement showed the NHS England budget will fall by £9bn £139bn … Rishi Sunak’s first budget of 2021 on 3rd March has given no new money to the NHS. Failing to deal with failure: NHS England has another try, NHS can’t care for us all without these steps, Reality check coming for deniers of the NHS challenge, NHS England takes control – but hides key figures, NHS performance recovering, but record numbers are waiting. Resources, information and commentary to help you prepare for the EU exit. View our cookie policy. 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