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Originally Posted by Financial Times
Brown cut budget for English hospitals
By Chris Giles and Nicholas Timmins
Published: June 29 2007 22:00 | Last updated: June 29 2007 22:00
Gordon Brown quietly slashed by a third this year’s hospital building and equipment budget in one of his last acts as chancellor.
Prompted by the tightness of the public finances, the new prime minister, who has placed the NHS as his “immediate priority”, cut the capital budget of the English NHS for 2007-08 from £6.2bn to £4.2bn. The move could delay the government’s hospital building and reconfiguration programme in England.
However, Mr Brown avoided equivalent cuts to the Scottish and Welsh NHS budgets even though the funding formula for the UK nations suggests they should have shared the pain. That decision leaves him open to criticism that he favoured patients in his home country.
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So there you go, this is what we have to look forward to. Handy them cars being in London to bury this news.
/me awaits excuses from labour fanboys