UK hospitals on brink of collapse: NHS Providers

‘The head of Britain’s NHS Providers, which represents hospitals across the country has issued a stark warning that National Health Services (NHS) is on the verge of collapse due to its swelling cash crisis.
Years of underfunding have left the service confronting such “impossible” demands that without immediate extra investment in November’s autumn statement, it will have to slash staff, bring in charges or introduce “draconian rationing” of treatment – all options that will trigger public unrest, said Chief Executive of NHS Providers Chris Hopson in a Saturday column in the Observer daily.
“Taken together this means the NHS is increasingly failing to do the job it wants to do and the public needs it to do, through no fault of its own,” he added.’
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