Hospitals will ‘narrowly miss elective target’ to save the bottom line

Daniel Elkeles

Hospitals will hit financial targets this year but fall “slightly short” of their waiting-list objectives – as they were “explicitly” told that reducing deficits was “more important” – the NHS Providers’ CEO has predicted.

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