HEALTH chiefs in Warrington face the challenge of finding savings of £25 million in the coming year – despite making savings of more than £23 million last year.
This is revealed in a report by the Warrington Health Consortia to the borough council’s health and wellbeing scrutiny committee.
The report states that for the financial year ending March 31, Warrington Primary Care Trust declared a small surplus of £250,000.
“This was the result of a huge effort on behalf of clinical staff across the health economy supported by colleagues in the PCT, community services, social care and Warrington Hospital,” the report states.
During 2010-11, an extensive programme of Quality and Productivity changes resulted in £8.4 million non-recurrent and £15.4 million recurrent savings.
But despite this effort, Warrington faces a similar scale of challenge for the current year, with total savings of £25 million required through the Government’s Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme (QIPP).
So far, £14.3m has been identified within existing projects leaving a further £5.6m (Consortium) and £4.7m (Primary Care Trust) to be identified during the year.
QIPP is the programme through which the NHS hopes, nationally, to generate billions of pounds in annual savings – while simultaneously adapting to major re-organisational changes.
HEALTH chiefs in Warrington face the challenge of finding savings of £25 million in the coming year - despite making savings of more than £23 million last year.
Health chiefs must save £25 million
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They could start by getting rid of some of the pen-pushers and managers that did jobs created to account for money and targets.
I agree. The number of office based jobs created to account for money and targets is mind blowing! Lets now get serious and rid the organisation of these useless, unnecessary and unwanted jobs. We need to start at the top. Managers could start by voluntarily taking a cut of, say, 20% in salary to start the process. We can but live in wonderland!