NHS hospital boards could be costing taxpayers more than £500million a year, researchers claim

NHS hospital boards could be costing taxpayers more than £500million a year, researchers claim

NHS hospital boards and their bureaucracy is costing taxpayers up to £500million a year, Oxford University researchers have claimed. Professors Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson estimate England’s 161 acute NHS trusts are spending around £386million a year running their boards and teams that support them. But they say including mental health, community and ambulance trusts in the calculation could push the total abov…

3 Sept, 09:17