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A SENIOR doctor in charge of Westminster?s health care budget has criticised a government plan to make cuts of more than ?53million each year that will hit the poor.
Westminster?s poorest residents are set to lose out in a government shake-up of NHS funding that will mean gaps between the rich and poor are no longer considered when billions of pounds of NHS money are divided up.
Ruth O?Hare, who is in charge of the NHS in Westminster, wrote to the finance chief of NHS England warning that the cuts would leave them struggling to make ends meet.
Currently boroughs where there are extreme ?health inequalities? between the rich and poor get extra funding to tackle the gap.
Instead NHS England wants to plough funding into areas with high levels of elderly people.
http://www.westendextra.com/news/20...s-funding-change-will-strip-£53m-patient-care
Westminster?s poorest residents are set to lose out in a government shake-up of NHS funding that will mean gaps between the rich and poor are no longer considered when billions of pounds of NHS money are divided up.
Ruth O?Hare, who is in charge of the NHS in Westminster, wrote to the finance chief of NHS England warning that the cuts would leave them struggling to make ends meet.
Currently boroughs where there are extreme ?health inequalities? between the rich and poor get extra funding to tackle the gap.
Instead NHS England wants to plough funding into areas with high levels of elderly people.
http://www.westendextra.com/news/20...s-funding-change-will-strip-£53m-patient-care