National Health Service, publicly funded healthcare systems in Great Britain, have been slammed with the charges of futile spending, leading to budget deficit faced by some of the trusts.

Spending on the NHS has risen to more than £127bn. Lord Warner, former Labor Minister commented that the NHS which buys care for patients, obtained more money than it could utilize. He further remarked that the money input to NHS went up by 60% as compared to the output of 4%, which leaves a productivity gap due to adoption of traditional Labor line followed by Gordon Brown, then Chancellor.

The labor party established 300 PCTs (primary care trusts) to organize the health services from the public and private sector providers. Lord Warner said it was inappropriate to open to many PCTs due to shortage of manpower to fill in the executive management vacancies. He noticed the unnecessary cash inflow and outflow at NHS and reduced PCTs to 150, and planned further reduction to 50.

Civitas jointly produced a survey with the Guardian, reported that benefits to the health services were barred by excessive control by ministers and Whitehall weakening the authority of primary care trusts. Trusts claim that there is not room left for changes to balance books and expects government to step in. Health Department is working with SHAs [strategic health authorities] to pave the way for financial balance.