Budget measures leave NHS in better health

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The British Mar 2000 Budget includes provision for increased spending in the National Health Service (NHS) of 6.1% above inflation levels in the four years from 2000. Companies that should benefit from this spending increase incloude those offering IT solutions that help increase productivity, and those producing more effective drugs. Demand for basic hospital supplies also looks set to rise, which should benefit Huntleigh Technology and Smith and Nephew. Pharma companies should also benefit from a focus on heart disease and cancer.

Social policy

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Optimism in health sector despite obstacles

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The UK National Health Service (NHS) should seek private sector funds, according to Tom Sackville, UK health undersecretary of state. The NHS has 500 projects involving private finance in early 1995. The private finance initiative (PFI) embraces pathology laboratories, catering services, car parks and other facilities which can be contracted out. Some critics argues that the government is asking the private sector to carry too much risk.

Public sector

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Profile: 100 years for King's Fund

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King's Fund is a UK charity set up in 1897 to help London infirmaries. The King's Fund Development Centre helps finance innovations in the National Health Service (NHS). The London Commission was set up in 1990 to assess healthcare services in London, and found that there was more need for primary care facilities, while acute services were over-abundant. Hospitals have subsequently been recommended for closure. The Fund has been criticised for not protecting hospitals and rationalization has been more rapid than the Commission had anticipated.

SOCIAL SERVICES, Private Social Services, Social Assistance, Management, Charities, King's Fund

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