Letter

NHS financial crisis: signs of crisis or hope?

BMJ 2006; 332 doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7546.914-b (Published 13 April 2006)
Cite this as: BMJ 2006;332:914.3

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  1. Stephen Black, management consultant (tephen.black@paconsulting.com)
  1. London SW1 W9SR

    EDITOR—The current financial crisis in the NHS may be the birth pangs of real reform and not a cause for panic.1

    Historically NHS trust accounts have contained little useful information. They existed more to tick a statutory reporting box than to provide useful guidance on performance or the state of the hospital. To declare surpluses (which will be taken …

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