The Birmingham and the Black Country Health Authority hit upon a novel way to clear its £13million budgetary deficit:: it spent the next three years’ worth of money that due to be spent on the training and professional development of nurses and midwives.
How long will it be before other NHS Trusts start doing the same thing if Birmingham and the Black Country get away with this?
In the Back, Private Eye, No. 1151, 3-16
