All targets and most budgets are arbitrary, so when hospital finance directors complain that theirs are unsustainable, what do they actually mean?
1.
That they'll have to make difficult decisions
24%
(18 votes)
2.
That no further cuts are possible without harming patients
49%
(38 votes)
3.
That they're not trying hard enough
5%
(4 votes)
4.
That catastrophic failure is on the cards
22%
(17 votes)