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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Clea Skopeliti

‘It feels very unsafe’: the NHS staff bracing for winter as cuts loom

NHS staff on ward
NHS leaders say wait times are being exacerbated by an acute lack of nurses, with more than one in 10 nursing roles unfilled. Composite: Guardian Design/PA

Further funding cuts to the NHS will unavoidably endanger patient safety, an NHS leader warned last week after the chancellor’s promise of spending cuts of “eye-watering difficulty”.

Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said his members were issuing the “starkest warning” about “the huge and growing gulf between what the NHS is being asked to deliver and the funding and capacity it has available”.

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