NHS Told To Sit On Surplus, UK
The new NHS operating framework for 2008/09 says surpluses delivered in 2007/08 by strategic health authorities and PCTs should be carried to the next financial year. 'Each SHA area should then plan for a surplus in 2008/09 at least equivalent to that total,' The NHS in England: The Operating Framework for 2008-09 says.
The instruction comes just weeks after health secretary Alan Johnson pledged the excess money would be spent on tackling healthcare-associated infections and delivering faster treatment for patients.
BMA central consultants and specialists committee joint deputy chair Mark Porter said NHS staff had been assured the 'pain' of achieving surpluses would result in greater service investment. He said: 'Now the operating framework has been published we discover the government is not delivering on that promise.'
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