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MPs and experts unite to ask: Did Hunt try to hide NHS cash crisis?
ask MPs and experts unite to ask:
LABOUR demanded an investigation yesterday into claims that NHS funding figures were fiddled to save the skin of Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Final quarter figures on spending by NHS trusts revealed yesterday that the health service is facing the biggest financial crisis in its history.
Trusts declared an unprecedented deficit of £2.45 billion in 2014/15 — a black hole three times bigger than the previous year — though this was lower than a £2.8bn shortfall forecast from earlier in the year.
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