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But managers are beginning to point out the health service is breaking down, says JOHN LISTER

AS THE financial stranglehold on the NHS is tightened, there are signs that senior NHS managers are beginning to speak out about the damage done by seven years of frozen budgets alongside increasing cost pressures.

The pace has been set by NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens. He told the management union Managers in Partnership (MiP) that Jeremy Hunt’s insistence on staff pay rises being dependent upon improved productivity was “an own goal of the first magnitude.”

Stevens argued for an end to the pay cap and for the government to give the health service the extra money needed to cover the cost of whatever award is finally made — or admit that any pay increase would necessarily result in cutting staff numbers.

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