THE TELEGRAPH: The National Health Service will not be spared the efficiency savings which the Government will impose on the entire public sector, Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, has warned.
Overall spending on the NHS will rise in real terms, he said, but the “substantial increase” in health spending over the past decade under Labour was “not sustainable for the future”.
The Government would have to go beyond the annual efficiency savings for the NHS set out by Labour, Mr Lansley said. Labour said its plans had implied savings of up to £20 billion by 2013-14 and warned that the coalition’s plans to do more would mean “real pain for the NHS”. >>> Rosa Prince and James Kirkup | Friday, May 14, 2010
