NHS faces funding shortfall regardless of election result, experts warn

Healthcare experts have warned that the NHS faces a financial "black hole" regardless of the result of the general election.

The leaders of The King's Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation – three of the country's leading health thinktanks – have stated that none of the major political parties are offering enough funding to address the resourcing shortfall faced by the NHS.

In a letter to the Times, thinktank leaders Chris Ham, Nigel Edwards and Jennifer Dixon cited figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility suggesting that the NHS will require 155 billion pounds a year by the end of the next parliament to make ends meet.

This would represent a real-terms funding increase of about 30 billion pounds a year, but none of the plans outlined by the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats in their manifestos would cover even half of this amount.

The letter said: "Failure to provide sufficient funding and improve efficiency will result in longer waiting times for patients, poorer access to cost-effective treatments and a decline in NHS and social care."

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