NHS leaders facing real-terms cut in funding and ‘impossible choices’ over which areas of patient care to cut back The health service is facing a real-terms cut in funding of between £4 billion and £9.4 billion this year, new NHS Confederation analysis has found.
NHS leaders face impossible choices over whether to cut patient care or reduce investment in much needed diagnostic capacity and new technology after a series of unexpected cost pressures, including a new pay award for staff, left the NHS facing its first real terms cut in funding.
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- NHS services may have to be cut to fund pay award BBC News
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- NHSE: ICSs must cut agency spend by 10pc or more (log in required) Health Service Journal
- Bosses face 'impossible choices' over cost pressures, says NHS Confederation The Independent
- Cancer backlog ‘vulnerable’ to pay deal cuts at ‘worst possible time’ The Independent
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