Germany [New] To ensure that new arrivals to the UK contribute to the funding of the NHS, the Immigration Health Surcharge will be increased to £624. [New] There is no provision for any new UK funding for the public health grant next year which has faced significant cuts and will continue to fall behind investment in front line NHS services. [New] Councils can help the Government meets it commitment to end transmission of HIV in England by 2030 with long-term, sustainable funding of the public health services which help people stay healthy and reduce the strain on the NHS and social care. [New] Ontario will move ahead with some of its controversial municipal funding cuts for public health and child care next year. [New] The new UK government's key funding priorities are health - for which the Tories are due to increase spending by £20bn in real terms by 2024 - and schools, for which they plan to increase spending by £14bn over the next three years. [New] By 2030, the SDGs' deadline, there will be a USD176 billion gap in the 54 poorest countries between the financing needed to provide their populations with quality, affordable health services and funding that is actually available. [New] The UK secretary of state for health and social care is expected to today announce £200 million of funding to create additional global digital exemplars. [New] Over the coming years, ODA financing of health will undergo material change including a decrease in funding via important global public private partnerships to governments with economic growth. [New] The Department for Health and Social Care could be faced with an annual funding gap of up to £60bn by 2030 because of a combination of demographic pressures and historic under-spending. [New] UK projects that tackle sexual violence, address social exclusion among BAME women and improve mental health and wellbeing will receive funding over the next two years. [New] The Department of Health is threatening to direct how social care funding is used at councils with the worst records for delaying transfers of care. [New] Funding from the National Institute for Health Research will establish a new Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health at the University of Edinburgh. [New] UK public health funding was cut by £200 million in 2015/16 and a further £600 million will be cut by 2020/21 forcing local authorities to be in the precarious position of picking and choosing which services they fund. [New] There will be £1.5bn in funding to be spent over the next two years on infrastructure, health and education in Northern Ireland. [New] The rising cost of litigation against the NHS contributes to pressure on health service funding and risks diverting funds away from frontline care. [New] Funding for college work-study programs would be cut in half, public-service loan forgiveness would end and hundreds of millions of dollars that public schools could use for mental health, advanced coursework and other services would vanish under a Trump administration plan to cut $10.6 billion. [New] A decision by the US National Institutes of Health to limit its grant support for individual researchers has sparked concerns that the policy could discourage collaboration or divert funding from the best science. [New] Public funding for health care as a proportion of GDP is now forecast to fall in the UK from 7.6 per cent in 2009/10 to 6.8 per cent by 2019/20. [New] Insufficient social care funding is now the most urgent threat to the NHS and the wider health and care system. [New] Health think tanks have warned MPs that the £8bn of extra funding promised by the government for the NHS in England by 2020 will only maintain the status quo and not help create the seven day service that the government is set on. [New] Examination of the direct costs to the Australian government (and indirect costs to end consumers) of the Community Pharmacy Agreements could improve the overall cost effectiveness of the health sector (the current 5th agreement involves funding of $15.4 billion over five years). [New] Additional funding could come from commercial enterprises that have a vested interest in UK livestock health. [New] More effective targeting of investment may prevent health care systems from reaching breaking point and in some countries better allocation of funding could even improve survival rates. See full forecast Last updated: 02 June 2020 Hi, Would you like a quick online demo of our service from an experienced member of our team? Yes No
