NHS SOS round-up

Save our NHS demo 4.3.17, photo Mary Finch (Click to enlarge)

The number of NHS patients waiting more than the target 18 weeks for an operation has gone up by 100,000 since January. Luckily, the government has a solution: scrap the 18-week target.
GPs' surgeries face fresh budget crises after NHS Property Services has threatened massive hikes to maintenance charges. Some could have to pay up to Ł100,000 more a year to the government-owned property group - headed by a former exec at privatised telecom firm BT.
Welsh Labour has insisted hospitals make more cuts. Four health boards have a total shortfall of Ł146 million this year. The Welsh government has refused to bail them out, preferring to wield the Tory axe rather than stand up to Westminster.

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