Hospitals 'Will Delay Surgery to Cope with Pounds 20bn Cash Cut' [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › September 28, 2009

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PATIENTS will be discharged early and operations could be delayed as the NHS struggles to cope with huge funding cuts, experts warned today.

Doctors and nurses could face pay cuts, routine appointments could be scrapped and administration work shared between hospitals after Health Secretary Andy Burnham admitted the NHS needed to save up to Pounds 20 billion.

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Hospitals 'Will Delay Surgery to Cope with Pounds 20bn Cash Cut' [Edition 2]

Foundation hospitals, which manage their own finances, have been told the...

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