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Yesterday in Parliament, the Health Minister, Mike O’Brien MP, spoke out against hospital managers making cuts despite record funding.  Parmjit has spoken out about Gloucestershire Hospital Trust’s Recent Announcement about threats to our Royal Hospital despite next year’s settlement from the government to the Gloucestershire NHS representing a 5.2% increase to a record £868.5m budget.

Mike O’Brien said: 

“We need imaginative managers who will focus on the quality of care. I make no bones about it-I will name and shame managers who are making slash-and-burn cuts across the health service. Just in the last couple of weeks, I saw a press release from Gloucester hospital that deeply concerned me. I wrote to the managers at Gloucester hospital, expressing concern. They have said that the economic situation means that they have to slash a load of beds-a couple of hundred beds. That is nonsense. Thankfully, they have now decided that that sort of slash-and-burn announcement is unnecessary and needs to be looked at with care. It is a product of a lack of imagination by managers, and managers need to be very careful when they go down that route.”