2020health Short Report Cutting the costs without cancelling the services: How to save the NHS £12bn in one year without stopping a single operation

The NHS review, 'Cutting the costs without cancelling the Services', 2020health unveil some radical proposals.

Proposals

• Merging emergency services administration – Save £14.4m
• Investing to improve staff’s health and wellbeing, reduce sickness absence and so cut agency worker’s costs – Save £555m
• Forcing mergers of pathology labs to save duplication – Save £880m
• 5% across the board pay cut for all NHS staff for just one year – Save £1.792bn
• Withholding hospital payments for hospital acquired infections – Save £150m
• Slashing management spend - Save £1.5bn
• Enhancing NHS counter fraud measures, encouraging trusts to see fraud as a business risk - Save £1bn
• Halting any new building plans - Save £800 million
• Making NHS IT fit for purpose - Save £2bn
• Reducing dependency on prescriptions and medicines waste – Save £ 1.6bn