RCN responds to Audit Commission Review of the NHS financial year 2006/07
Published: 23 October 2007
Responding to the publication of the Audit Commission Review of the NHS financial year 2006/07 RCN General Secretary Dr Peter Carter said;
"These figures show the hidden damage to the NHS caused by rushed reforms, reversed reconfigurations and short term thinking. It is unacceptable that patient care and frontline staff have been cut to produce a quick fix to long term financial problems whilst a small number of staff at the top has received large payouts to leave their posts.
"We acknowledge there has been improvement in NHS finances, but if we are to move forward and tackle the long term economic problems of the NHS we must now learn from these lessons"
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