Monitor Chief calls for annual increases in NHS funding

Monitor’s Chief Executive Dr David Bennett has used an interview in the Guardian to call for multimillion-pound annual increases in the NHS budget, if the service is to survive a “perfect storm” of pressures. Bennett cited an ageing and growing...

Monitor needs to counter anti-competition arguments

The Health Service Journal (£) has reported that Monitor’s Chief Executive David Bennett has said that the regulator was “struggling” to counter the arguments of influential commentators opposed to competition, who claim that it prevents changes, despite the regulator...