A new report suggested local NHS services are struggling to balance the books
NHS funded services in Wirral face cuts in order to combat an expected black hole of £36m in the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside’s budget for the area. A new report said increases in care costs were unsustainable as spending nearly doubles in five years. Reports published ahead of a Wirral Place Based Partnership Board meeting on November 21 show Wirral health services have already gone over budget by £28.6m so far this year, £12.7m more than planned.
3m more than planned and the ICB has looked at ways of cutting services locally, including its support for one cancer centre which will see their overall funding drop by a third. The ICB was given £150m of support funding by NHS England to try and close its budget gap with a target improvement of 5% which has led to some budgets being reduced.
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