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Lord Kerslake resigns over NHS funding
Sir Bob Kerslake has stepped down as chairman of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a result of the government’s unrealistic expectations for the NHS.
Kerslake, a former head of the civil service, said the government and its health regulator were being ‘unrealistic about the challenges’ facing the NHS and King’s College Trust.
His resignation is likely to cause some shockwaves through Whitehall. In a statement, King's College Hospital described Kerslake as a ‘passionate advocate and champion’ of the trust who had a ‘heartfelt commitment to staff and patients’.
NHS Improvement described the hospital's financial performance as ‘unacceptable’, although Kerslake paid tribute to the trust, especially in its response to the Westminster and London Bridge terrorist attacks. Acknowledging that the trust could have done better in some areas, the peer said, in a self-penned article in the Guardian, that ‘fundamentally our problems lie in the way that the NHS is funded and organised’.
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