Whether there is or isn't depends on your perspective. There may well beno crisis for people who insist on putting the NHS funding deficit into"perspective". It's a mere one per cent of total turnover, says healthsecretary Patricia Hewitt.
And nobody will lose their job - at least not in the Department ofHealth - if trusts can still meet their targets for hip replacements,corneal implants or radiotherapy, and any cuts can be confined to areaswhere targets are not quite so rigorous. So children's wards are beingclosed, school nursing and health visitor posts frozen, neonatalservices cut back, and the axe held over services for children withdisabilities (Children Now, 5-11 April).
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