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The NHS finance directors predict ward closures, job cuts and other reductions as they struggle to make ends meet and prepare for the reorganisation of England's health system, according to the King's Fund thinktank.
With some hospital waiting times the worst for three years, A&E departments overstretched, and surgeons warning that patients are being denied key treatments, the first in a series of planned quarterly monitoring reports highlights "significant concern" among some of those responsible for contributing to £20bn of "efficiency savings" in the NHS over four years and for ensuring that new bodies taking over services in the next three years do not start with deficits.
In February this year, nearly 15% of hospital patients had waited more than 18 weeks to be admitted, the highest figure since April 2008, and part of a steady increase since the government relaxed waiting-time targets in June last year.
A saving is not a saving until the activity has reduced AND the beds or theatres have closed AND the jobs taken out, Only then do commissioners and providers save money.Back-office savings make only a modest contribution.
So much for Mr Cameron's pledge to 'protect' the NHS - it is fast becoming his biggest broken promise along with all the others.
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