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THE NHS faces tough choices if it is to continue to deliver services in the face of the toughest financial settlement in the UK, the auditor general has warned.
In a stark message about the huge gaps in public service budgets, Auditor General for Wales Huw Vaughan Thomas today said the whole of the public sector faced "unprecedented" levels of financial pressure with a real-terms drop of pounds 1.9bn, or 12.4%, by 2014-15.See the full content of this document
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; Auditor General Raises Funding Worry
But the NHS faces the biggest test of all public services, he said, with a real-terms funding gap of pounds 440m by April 2014, even taking into account the extra money Business Minister Jane Hutt found in last week's draft Budget.
Speaking as the Wales Audit Office today published its Pi...See the full content of this document
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