The NHS faces one of its worst ever winters unless it receives an urgent funding injection in the UK government’s Autumn Statement next month, the outgoing head of a leading think-tank has warned.
Richard Murray, who retires next month as head of the King’s Fund after a 30-year career in health policy, said he had never known chief executives and finance directors to be so worried about having sufficient resources to steer the health service through its most testing months.
Any refusal to grant the additional sums needed when the chancellor Jeremy Hunt outlined his fiscal plans would be “self-destructive” and create the impression the government was willing to “sabotage” the health service, he warned.
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