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Jeremy Hunt’s talks of patient safety - but his NHS cash 'solutions' risk repeating the mistakes of Mid-Staffordshire.
The systematic and deliberate cash starvation of the NHS by Tory-led governments since 2010 has opened up an increasingly visible crisis, now leading to panic among management.
NHS providers in England could end the year a record £2.3 billion in deficit, according to the latest estimates from the King’s Fund, published last week.
The report – based on a survey of 83 NHS trusts - also found two thirds of them relying on extra cash handouts from the Department of Health, or digging into reserves to stay afloat.
Almost all NHS trusts in deficit
It’s one of several surveys of NHS finances in England lately that has come to almost identical conclusions on the scale of the problem.
And there is a real threat of more damaging cuts in the availability and quality of services.
Monitor, the NHS regulator, has revealed that current deficits are already £2.3 million and estimated the year-end figure at a massive £3 billion.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/john-...-cash-strapped-nhs-trusts-cut-375-nurses-each
The systematic and deliberate cash starvation of the NHS by Tory-led governments since 2010 has opened up an increasingly visible crisis, now leading to panic among management.
NHS providers in England could end the year a record £2.3 billion in deficit, according to the latest estimates from the King’s Fund, published last week.
The report – based on a survey of 83 NHS trusts - also found two thirds of them relying on extra cash handouts from the Department of Health, or digging into reserves to stay afloat.
Almost all NHS trusts in deficit
It’s one of several surveys of NHS finances in England lately that has come to almost identical conclusions on the scale of the problem.
And there is a real threat of more damaging cuts in the availability and quality of services.
Monitor, the NHS regulator, has revealed that current deficits are already £2.3 million and estimated the year-end figure at a massive £3 billion.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/john-...-cash-strapped-nhs-trusts-cut-375-nurses-each