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Authorities left to 'pick up pieces' of health crisis

Local government could be left to ‘pick up the pieces’ from the NHS’ financial crisis, an expert has warned.

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By Dan Peters | 16 December 2015

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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