Wednesday 22 February 2017

How far into the red will the NHS sink?

How far into the red will the NHS sink? Call it overspending, underfunding or deficits, the latest news from NHS Improvement involves plenty of red ink on the books of hospitals and other trusts.

And the picture is worse than it looked last November, which will lead to speculation that NHS finances in England are close to being out of control.

As recently as November, Jim Mackey, head of the regulator NHS Improvement, was saying that trusts in England would run up a total deficit of £580m for the full financial year.

Now that has been revised up to a range of £750m to £850m. That will hardly win him many friends at the Department of Health where ministers are anxious to demonstrate that a tighter grip has been applied to the NHS purse strings.

So what's changed? BBC News

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