NHS accused of shrouding £500m of planned cuts in secrecy

[Northerner]

Doctors’ leaders have accused NHS bosses of shrouding controversial plans for £500m of cuts to services across England in “totally unacceptable secrecy”.

Patients deserve to know how hospitals being told to “think the unthinkable” as part of the savings drive will affect their access to healthcare, the British Medical Association (BMA) said on Friday.

The doctors’ union voiced its frustration after trying but failing to obtain details of the cuts that are being planned in the 13 areas affected by the “capped expenditure process” (CEP), despite the NHS’s duty as a public body to respond to freedom of information requests.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...-of-shrouding-500m-of-planned-cuts-in-secrecy

 

[Bill Stewardson]

Doctors’ leaders have accused NHS bosses of shrouding controversial plans for £500m of cuts to services across England in “totally unacceptable secrecy”.

Patients deserve to know how hospitals being told to “think the unthinkable” as part of the savings drive will affect their access to healthcare, the British Medical Association (BMA) said on Friday.

The doctors’ union voiced its frustration after trying but failing to obtain details of the cuts that are being planned in the 13 areas affected by the “capped expenditure process” (CEP), despite the NHS’s duty as a public body to respond to freedom of information requests.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...-of-shrouding-500m-of-planned-cuts-in-secrecy

Me thinks the real truth about the NHS would send huge shock waves around the UK, and not just political ones.

They keep on trying to fool the public by demonising successive groups of regular users, be that drinkers, smokers, us, obese ( there is a distinction), or who ever else they can think of.

Irrespective of political tribalism or social standing the NHS really does sit at the top of everyone's list as a " must have" service. It is a massive time bomb ticking steadily away under the very foundations of the establishment.

Hence all these shady manoeuvres to try and hide or disguise actuality.