Local government could be left to ‘pick up the pieces’ from the NHS’ financial crisis, an expert has warned.
Chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit, Jonathan Carr-West, spoke out after a National Audit Office (NAO) report today found the financial performance of acute hospital trusts ‘significantly declined’ in the last year and was expected to worsen in 2015/16.
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