"Difficult decisions" needed as Lancashire NHS is faced with £200m savings target
Updated Tuesday, 16th March 2021, 1:58 pm The target was agreed at a board meeting of the region’s integrated care system (ICS), at which one hospital boss warned that the scale of the task meant “difficult decisions” would have to be made about the services on offer in different localities. Board members signed up to the savings tally – which amounts to five percent of total NHS expenditure across the patch – after hearing an estimate that the collective deficit of healthcare organisations in the area could be as high as £340m. The financial issues facing the region long predate ...
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