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Mar 2021
Warning that NHS services in England at risk unless £8bn extra funding is received within days
Health service leaders are warning ministers that hospitals will have to start to cut services unless the NHS receives £8bn of extra funding within days.
Hospital bosses say that the NHS will not be able to tackle the huge backlog of surgery that has built up during the pandemic unless it receives the funding to cover additional costs resulting from Covid.
The warning is contained in a letter to the chancellor Rishi Sunak from Danny Mortimer, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, an organisation which represents most NHS care-providing organisations.
He said in the letter “We are just 17 days away from the new financial year and yet the NHS has still not got a finalised budget in place.”
He went on to warn that if the Treasury did not agree this week to provide an agreed sum, “with the continued impact of the pandemic, the scale of the treatment backlog and additional demands for long Covid and mental health, this would put too many services in a perilous position at the start of the ‘recovery phase’ as the NHS plots a way out of the pandemic.
“Should the Treasury’s budget discussions with the NHS fail to conclude this week, then we face the very real prospect of some services, particularly in the first few months of the new financial year, having to cut back.”
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