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Originally Posted by the truth
you certainly are...sadly you don't seem to care about the record 2 million jobs created which pay towards the nhs the welfare state the care the public services etc the highest job creation in Europe put together.....you don't seem to want to acknowledge the rise in nhs investment , the halving of unemployment rate, or the 9000 additional doctors, the 7000 additional nurses, the record apprenticeships etc etc
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'The position in the acute sector in particular has deteriorated sharply, with more
than 60 per cent of hospitals in deficit. This is unprecedented, indicating that
financial distress has spread well beyond those hospitals with a history of struggling
to balance their books and is now endemic across the system. This is due to a
combination of the funding squeeze, year-on-year reductions in the prices paid for
treatment (which add up to a cut of nearly 7 per cent in real terms) and the
recruitment of significant numbers of nurses to safeguard quality of care following
the Francis report into the tragic events at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Faced with a choice between safeguarding quality of care and balancing the books,
it is clear that acute hospitals are choosing the former.
There are more grounds for optimism on the commissioner side – papers for NHS
England’s board meeting in November forecast a surplus of £283 million in the
commissioning budget, mainly as a result of the underspend carried forward from
last year (NHS England 2014a).'
This document shows that the NHS is making as much money as it spends... The document also shows that trusts are funding nurses sometimes at the detriment of other areas to not fall short of imposed measures.
So no.. The government cannot take responsibility for recruitment as how trusts spend their budget is not up to them, by suggesting he is the saviour of the NHS he's lying.
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/fi...efing-2014.pdf