Labour: the government has lost management of NHS finances

Two thirds of the hospitals that have fallen into deficit given that the basic election did so in the last economic 12 months. Photograph: Photofusion/Rex

The government has lost its grip above the finances of the NHS following the “disastrous reorganisation” of the well being service led to a dramatic increase in the number of hopitals falling into deficit, Labour will declare on Wednesday.

New figures analysed by the shadow social care minister, Liz Kendall, present that a lot more than a single in three acute NHS trusts had been in deficit in 2013-14, compared with just one in ten at the final standard election.

The evaluation, primarily based on figures from Monitor, the Believe in Advancement Authority and the Residence of Commons library, display a sharp decline in the finances of hospitals in the past 12 months. The figures show that two thirds of the hospitals that have fallen into deficit given that the common election (27 out of 42) did so in the last fiscal 12 months.

Kendall mentioned: “David Cameron promised that he would shield the NHS. Instead, his disastrous reorganisation has thrown the NHS into chaos.

“We now know that the government has also misplaced grip of the NHS’s finances. These have deteriorated sharply in the last 12 months and are set to get even worse in the up coming … Forcing via a £3bn back-space reorganisation when the NHS faces the greatest economic challenge of its lifestyle was David Cameron’s single largest blunder on the NHS, and it is sufferers who are struggling as a consequence.”

Labour: the government has lost management of NHS finances