The health secretary Patricia Hewitt announced this week that the NHS’s overall deficit for the last financial year doubled compared to 2004-2005, to 512 million Pounds. But Mrs Hewitt rejected the idea of making severe financial cuts or sacking a large number of employees. The government is at the center of the controversy this year because a large part of this deficit is due to the cost of management consultants, which were sent by the government into troubled trusts.
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