Today our report on Cutting the Costs without cancelling the services is published. The 
NHS budget has been ring-fence but we are uncomfortable with other public services being asked to make sacrifices, but not the NHS. NHS funding has doubled in the past 10 years; doctors salaries have increased 23-25% since their new contracts; fraud detection is practically non-existent; there are still unacceptable inefficiencies and money is still being committed to new hospitals before a nationwide strategic review is undertaken.
Julia Manning, 2020health chief exec spoke on this subject on yesterday’s The Big Question on BBC1. She said in principle it isn’t fair for other public services to shoulder the whole burden of costs reduction, it doesn’t reflect the increased NHS funding, and it detracts from the critical issue of us all taking more responsibility for our health and reducing demand.
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About Julia Manning
Julia is a social pioneer, writer and campaigner. She studied visual science at City University and became a member of the College of Optometrists in 1991, later specialising in visual impairment and diabetes. During her career in optometry, she lectured at City University, was a visiting clinician at the Royal Free Hospital and worked with Primary Care Trusts. She ran a domiciliary practice across south London and was a Director of the UK Institute of Optometry.
Julia formed 20/20Health in 2006. Becoming an expert in digital health solutions, she led on the NHS–USA Veterans’ Health Digital Health Exchange Programme and was co-founder of the Health Tech and You Awards with Axa PPP and the Design Museum. Her research interests are now in harnessing digital to improve personal health, and she is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at UCL. She is also dedicated to creating a sustainable Whole School Wellbeing Community model for schools that builds relationships, discovers assets and develops life skills. She is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Digital Health Council.
Julia has shared 2020health's research widely in the media (BBC News, ITV, Channel 5 News, BBC 1′s The Big Questions & Victoria Derbyshire, BBC Radio 4 Today, PM and Woman's Hour, LBC) and has taken part in debates and contributed to BBC’s Newsnight, Panorama, You and Yours and ITV’s The Week.
NHS budget has been ring-fence but we are uncomfortable with other public services being asked to make sacrifices, but not the NHS. NHS funding has doubled in the past 10 years; doctors salaries have increased 23-25% since their new contracts; fraud detection is practically non-existent; there are still unacceptable inefficiencies and money is still being committed to new hospitals before a nationwide strategic review is undertaken.
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