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This is a good article, largely making sense of the peculiar NHS finances. One minor clarification on the £1 billion plus SHA/PCT underspend. Almost all of this is previous underspends carried forward. PCTs do, pretty much, spend what they are allocated each year. They are nor allowed to spend much of their underspends from previous years (largely because the NHS isn't sitting on a matching mountain of cash).

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