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Theresa May is being urged to write off almost £12bn in overspending by hospitals or risk her £20bn NHS boost being spent on debt repayment rather than improving healthcare.
NHS experts are warning that promised expansions of cancer and mental healthcare will prove impossible because a large amount of the £20bn that the prime minister pledged this year will go to the NHS by 2023-24 will be used servicing historic debts.
The calls to wipe out £11.7bn of deficits and loans are being led by Peter Carter, who NHS bosses hired to help turn around two hospital trusts in Kent in 2016 and 2017, and come a week before the budget, in which Philip Hammond will explain how the government will find the £20bn it announced in June to mark the NHS’s 70th anniversary.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/21/nhs-20bn-cash-risks-paying-off-debts
NHS experts are warning that promised expansions of cancer and mental healthcare will prove impossible because a large amount of the £20bn that the prime minister pledged this year will go to the NHS by 2023-24 will be used servicing historic debts.
The calls to wipe out £11.7bn of deficits and loans are being led by Peter Carter, who NHS bosses hired to help turn around two hospital trusts in Kent in 2016 and 2017, and come a week before the budget, in which Philip Hammond will explain how the government will find the £20bn it announced in June to mark the NHS’s 70th anniversary.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/21/nhs-20bn-cash-risks-paying-off-debts
