NHS £20billon savings target may be missed

Doctors and managers are becoming increasingly sceptical about the NHS’s ability to meet the government’s £20billion efficiency savings target by 2015, according to a report in onedica.com. In the latest Quarterly Monitoring Report, from health think tank The King’s Fund, doubts have been voiced about the likelihood of meeting this target for productivity improvements. The survey carried out in July, which gathered results from 29 CCG finance leads, 42 NHS trust finance directors, and 22 directors of adult social services, showed that only 10% of finance directors rated the chances of meeting the target as better than 50/50. Just over