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Healthcare cutbacks of £380m facing NHS in Wales
September 07, 2010
More people in Wales may turn to private healthcare providers as the NHS makes cutbacks in the next few months.
More people in Wales may soon be seeking health insurance as cutbacks take effect on the nation's NHS services.
Savings of £380 million from public sector healthcare in Wales need to be achieved by April 2011, with changes being made to hospital services and savings targets planned on staff pay.
One health board in the country has already predicted that "tension will increase" between the expectations of patients and what the NHS can actually afford to provide them with, reports BBC News.
Dr Lyndon Miles, vice chair of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, said: "We are looking at lots of areas [ for savings] - we are looking at the way we spend at the moment, for example employing locums and agency staff and the way we recruit."
The recent Vision of Britain 2020 report, compiled by Friends Provident and the Future Foundation, forecast that more people across the UK will need health insurance to pay for treatments such as IVF in the future as the NHS pares back its services.
Published by Holly Butler
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