A row threatened to blow up between Westminster and Leeds this week over who should fund any pay increase triggered by the decision to drop the public sector pay cap. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt thinks the NHS should find the money from productivity increases; NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens thinks the government should stump up the cash. However, the eyes of the healthcare IT community were focused on Birmingham, where the tenth edition of ehi LIVE 2017 took place at the NEC. Highlights included Will Smart, NHS England’s chief information officer, letting slip that he thought the NHS would need another £4.2 billion from the Treasury for digitisation, techUK launching a paper on winter pressures, and this year’s ehi AWARDS winners being unveiled.
Healthcare Roundup 3 November 2017
