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[FONT="]The body that represents hospitals across England has issued a startling warning that the [/FONT]NHS[FONT="] is close to breaking point because of its escalating cash crisis.
[/FONT][FONT="]Years of underfunding have left the service facing such “impossible” demands that without urgent extra investment in November’s autumn statement it will have to cut staff, bring in charges or introduce “draconian rationing” of treatment – all options that will provoke public disquiet, it says
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[/FONT][FONT="]“Ministers refer to ‘£10bn extra’, which to many people will seem a lot of money. But that £10bn is being stretched in a number of directions, including to pay for the seven-day NHS. Everyone who has looked into the finances of both the NHS and care system knows that this is nowhere near enough. We are the world’s fifth or sixth largest economy so it’s really horrendous that, despite our relative wealth, we have a health and social care system that is on its knees,” he added.[/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT]https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/10/hospitals-on-brink-of-collapse-say-health-chiefs[FONT="]
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Always it is, that Government doesn't spend enough... /smh