All week we’ve been waiting for the figures that would show just how bad the scale of the NHS financial crisis was.
The regulator, Monitor, had been ‘leaned on’ to delay publication til after the Tory Party Conference.
And no wonder. The figures that were finally released today were bad. Really bad. NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts have gone nearly a billion pounds in the red in just three months. And patients are suffering as waiting lists are soaring.
