Monday 9 November 2015

NHS facing financial collapse without more cash, warns London trust chief

NHS facing financial collapse without more cash, warns London trust chief Chair of south-west London trust says hospitals will be unable to pay staff next year unless Jeremy Hunt doubles annual funding rise to £4bn

The NHS is gripped by “an accelerating financial disaster” that could mean hospitals are unable to pay their staff next year, one of the service’s bosses has said.

Christopher Smallwood, chairman of St George’s University Hospitals NHS foundation trust, which serves 1.3 million people in south-west London, claims that years of underfunding have left hospitals short of staff and unable to meet waiting time targets for cancer and A&E care. Continue reading... The Guardian

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