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NHS cuts: managers urge government honesty
Health service managers have called on the government to be more honest about the financial challenges facing the NHS in England.
The NHS Confederation says a lack of candour over funding is damaging as the public may resist a service being cut.
Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, says there is no public understanding of why changes are needed.
"It's very difficult for NHS managers and clinicians to make those necessary changes, and the alternative to getting public support for that is that they make unplanned cuts which are frankly in some cases rather dangerous to care that people need." More
