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The coalition is cutting NHS resources "to and beyond the bone" and denying patients treatment by clawing back billions of pounds in unspent health funding, the leader of Britain's doctors has claimed.
Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association's (BMA) chair of council, also accused ministers of risking patient safety by insisting that the NHS makes ?20bn of efficiency savings which are leading to cuts in staffing, including doctors.
In his keynote address to the doctors' union's annual conference in Edinburgh on Monday he voiced doctors' concerns that the "Nicholson challenge" is causing problems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/24/government-cutting-nhs-doctors
Dr Mark Porter, the British Medical Association's (BMA) chair of council, also accused ministers of risking patient safety by insisting that the NHS makes ?20bn of efficiency savings which are leading to cuts in staffing, including doctors.
In his keynote address to the doctors' union's annual conference in Edinburgh on Monday he voiced doctors' concerns that the "Nicholson challenge" is causing problems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/24/government-cutting-nhs-doctors