In spite of increasing demands related to the services provided by hospital such as A&E care, the budget of hospitals will drop down by £2bn. This has been notified by the head of the NHS in England.

Less than £2bn will be provided per year to acute hospitals from April 2015. This amount will help in generating funds and will accomplish the ministerial promises. This will also provide closer integration of health and social care services.

Without this move, the NHS will no longer continue to work after the year 2015. This was told by Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of NHS England, to bosses across the service.

Hospitals, groups of GPs and other healthcare providers, will make efforts the spend money collected from the integration transformation fund (ITF). The amount will be spent on new services till they plan to work together with social care providers.

The money can be used to reduce the pressure on the NHS. This will be done by improving services outside the hospitals. Such services includes methods to evade patients who need to go into hospital, early involvement to avoid illness worsening to a critical point and enhancing the supported early discharge of generally aged patients. This was suggested by Nicholson.