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HEALTH unions and MPs have welcomed the rejection of NHS funding changes that would have robbed the North East of millions of pounds.
Last year, Conservative health ministers suggested that community health funding should be allocated according to age rather than deprivation.
The proposal to change the formula came as budgets were passed from Primary Care Trusts to the new Clinical Commissioning Groups set up under the Government?s NHS reorganisation.
A study by Durham University said that the move could see a 14% cut to Newcastle?s budget and a 15% cut for the North East region as a whole.
Newcastle East MP Nick Brown tabled a motion in Parliament to fight the move with support from almost 60 other MPs from around the country.
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-...o-funding-in-nhs-are-scrapped-61634-32586497/
Last year, Conservative health ministers suggested that community health funding should be allocated according to age rather than deprivation.
The proposal to change the formula came as budgets were passed from Primary Care Trusts to the new Clinical Commissioning Groups set up under the Government?s NHS reorganisation.
A study by Durham University said that the move could see a 14% cut to Newcastle?s budget and a 15% cut for the North East region as a whole.
Newcastle East MP Nick Brown tabled a motion in Parliament to fight the move with support from almost 60 other MPs from around the country.
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-...o-funding-in-nhs-are-scrapped-61634-32586497/