A Manchester hospital trust has revealed it will have to save an extra £20m over the next four years.
Bosses at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had previously announced last April that it would have to slash around £100m from its budget between 2010 and 2014.
But further NHS spending cuts mean bosses will be forced to make bigger savings for longer.
The trust, which provides care for more than a million patients a year, now expects to have to reduce costs by between £30m and £40m each year until 2015.
But health bosses believe they will not have to make redundancies – and can safeguard jobs at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI), St Mary’s, the Children’s Hospital as well as the Eye and Dental hospitals.
Chief executive Mike Deegan said: “We need to provide clinical and cost effective care – we believe if we do this we can safeguard the future of our staff. We believe it will be difficult but it’s possible.”
The trust has a budget of £665m per year – and spent around £1.8m a day last year.
Chiefs are making savings through cutting down on the use of agency staff and expensive overtime payments, buying supplies and services at a cheaper rate and trying to reduce the length of time patients stay in hospital.
Speaking at the trust’s annual members’ meeting Ursula Denton, director of financial strategy, added: “It’s not going to get any easier. The financial position is likely to stay really tight in the NHS over the next decade.”
Despite having to make savings, the trust says this is not affecting patient care.
Achievements over the past 12 months include cutting the number of serious falls at its hospitals by 80 per cent and reducing serious harm incidents by 40 per cent.
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Stop treating health tourists, sick leave, sack admin staff, change pension system, make staff work, its took me 30 seconds and i have already identified tenfold the amount they need to save.
Stop paying through the nose for studd like asprin because your procurement systems are rubbish. And all the things Stretfordian says
What will not be cut is the £50 million paid each year (index linked at 2.5%) to the Catalyst PFI company.
Every year for 40 years.
As the CHC wrote in 2003;
“A public sector alternative would not just be cheaper, it would allow for more flexibility over time, and would keep the control and planning of services in the hands of the health service, not put it into the hands of unaccountable private sector firms. We believe this PFI scheme should be rejected - and the case made properly for a positively public alternative.”
But in the spirit of public sector bad, private sector good the CHC was duly abolished.
I agree with the health tourist comment. If no insurance no treatment, private hospitals would turn them away. Anyone visiting here who actually gives birth here the child is given a NHS card. I know for some countries cheaper to get a flight here and be treated than in home country. Stop time wasting by staff. Not all staff are skivers but watching some of them in the MRI is like watching paint dry. Make it easier for employers to get rid of useless staff instead of all the protocols labour instigated. Verbal warnings, written warnings, anyone with bad sickness record needs to go. Some employees feel because they are given so many paid sick days thats the amount of time off on top of holidays. So come on get real, there are savings to be made, just get the top ones of their arris.
And stop buying bandages - use the coverings of Manchester Museum's, mummified Egyptians...
Just thought I'd help Balz and Stretfordian out, they'll be busy, 'encouraging' pensioners to cross-country run, rather than claiming winter fuel allowances.
If you sack admin staff ther will be no one to run the clinic's,?? Hospital staff have not had a pay rise for the last three years, also they are not replacing anybody that leaves, so it is left to us that are still here to do the work of that person..... oh and stetfordian lets hope you never have to go to hospital, because if you had your way there would be nobody there to see to you? and would you like to be sacked from your job thats if you have one ?????
Stretfordian thinks he can save 1/3 of the total budget of the hospital in 30 seconds. Someone should give him a job.
How about an incentive package to go with it - he could get 10% of the savings if he's successful, but have to pay 1% back if he isn't?
Manchester is full of Homer Simpson types who think they have all the answers - why don't we let them put their money where there mouth is?