NHS: Finance

(asked on 3rd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assumptions have been made by Monitor and NHS England on the size of the overall NHS provider sector deficit for 2015–16 should their proposed Enhanced Tariff Offer be accepted.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 17th March 2015

NHS England and Monitor have estimated that the Enhanced Tariff Option, set out in the letter to providers from the NHS England and Monitor Chief Executives on 18 February 2015, is worth around £500 million more to providers than the tariff proposals they consulted on for next year, as a consequence of differences including a lower efficiency requirement and an increase in the marginal rate reimbursement for increases in emergency admissions. Estimates of the financial position for individual providers and for the NHS provider sector as a whole, will be dependent on the outcomes of the planning process for 2015-16, which is still underway.

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