Savage NHS Cuts Promised By Labour

Posted by paulankers on March 10, 2010

Labour are promising £950m worth of NHS budget cuts in Greater Manchester. The Manchester Evening News uncovered this report, which Gordon Brown probably wanted buried till after the elections.

Now a leaked letter reveals NHS North West have ordered health bosses to draw up plans for:

10 per cent cuts in primary, community, acute and mental health sectors by 2013
15pc cuts in acute and in-patient mental health care by 2013
10pc cuts in demand for hospital care by next year
Slashing management costs by 15pc over four years.

It also instructs managers to scrutinise pay and staffing levels in a bid to cut costs.

LibDem Parliamentary Spokesperson (Bolton North East), Paul Ankers said,

“Severe cuts need to be well planned. If waste was rife during good economic times our money should not have been wasted. The NHS is NOT ringfenced and too much of the cuts are going to hurt, and hurt patients more than their ailments.”

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