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Mid Sussex
MP speaks on NHS deficits Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames spoke during a House of Commons debate on NHS deficits on Monday 12th March: NHS Deficits [Relevant documents: The First Report from the Health Committee, Session 2006-07, HC 73-I, National Health Service Deficits, and the Government Response thereto, Cm 7028; and the Department of Health Departmental Report 2006, Cm 6814.] Mr. Nicholas Soames (Mid-Sussex) (Con): We all greatly respect how the right hon. Gentleman chairs the Select Committee. I have raised with him the serious problem of historic deficits where the Government order one trust to merge with another trust, which can often lead to a very substantial deficit that the newly created trust then finds it almost impossible to get out from under. The trust has no alternative but to deal with that. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Government really need to find a more sympathetic understanding and a more coherent way to deal with those inherited deficits that does not cause such terrible difficulties later on in the trust’s life? |
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