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£1.5 bn NHS Proposed Savings

£ 1.5 bn NHS Proposed Savings

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley believes a third could be shaved off the annual cost of quangos and NHS management in England. He believes bureaucracy has gone out of control.

Running costs for PCTs have risen from £1.43bn to £2.14bn in the past four years. One main area where savings will be made is in the cutting back of management consultants.

Other budgets that will be under the spot light include the £200 million cost of running the Dept of Health as well as the £ 100 million spent on the 10 strategic health authorities that oversee care on a regional basis.

Mr Lansley will say over the course of four years the £ 4.5bn bill in this area could be cut to £ 3.00bn.

Posted: October 5, 2009, 2:58 pm.

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