£9.5bn or “drastic cuts” only way deliver STPs, says BMA
BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j799 (Published 14 February 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j799
- Zosia Kmietowicz
- The BMJ
The sustainability and transformation plans (STPs),1 set up to improve the quality of care and save £15bn (€17.7bn; $18.8bn) of the £22bn needed across England by 2020, will cost £9.5bn to deliver, the BMA has said in a new analysis.
The costs relate to the infrastructure that is needed to make the savings—such as building projects and investment in community facilities—responses to freedom of information requests submitted by 37 of the 44 footprint areas charged with making the plans have shown.
More than half of the STP footprint areas have told NHS England that they would need more than £100m up front to make changes to …
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