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The long-term crisis in NHS finances will be laid bare next week when the health service reveals it is facing a ?30bn hole in its budget ? as a prominent Lib Dem peer suggests charging people to see their GPs.
Tim Kelsey, NHS England's information director and a former Cabinet Office adviser on data, said the health service faced a ?30bn funding gap by 2020. In an interview with Health Service Journal he said: "We are about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion."
He said that next week NHS England would be "publishing a call to action". The document ? entitled The NHS Belongs to Us All ? is expected to make the case for significant changes to the way hospitals operate. "The financial context is, and our analysis will disclose, that by 2020 there will be a ?30bn funding gap in the healthcare system."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/05/nhs-face-funding-gap-2020
Tim Kelsey, NHS England's information director and a former Cabinet Office adviser on data, said the health service faced a ?30bn funding gap by 2020. In an interview with Health Service Journal he said: "We are about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion."
He said that next week NHS England would be "publishing a call to action". The document ? entitled The NHS Belongs to Us All ? is expected to make the case for significant changes to the way hospitals operate. "The financial context is, and our analysis will disclose, that by 2020 there will be a ?30bn funding gap in the healthcare system."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/05/nhs-face-funding-gap-2020