20.10.10
Funding increases not ‘adequate’ to deal with ‘growing demand’, says NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation has issued a warning about the financial pressures which organisations within the NHS are facing.
Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive at the NHS Confederation, said: “The country faces very serious financial issues and everybody has to play a part in finding the solution - for that to happen there must be a frank and honest debate about implication of the decisions being taken.
“The public need to go into this with their eyes wide open. The NHS may have some limited protection to its budget but it still faces a potent cocktail of financial pressures.
“We need to deal with funding increases which while protected will not be adequate to deal with growing demand, one of the biggest reorganisations in the NHS’s history and the pre-existing need to find between £15-20 billion of savings.”
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