This week, the HSJ team look at money and what is coming for what is expected to be the toughest financial year for the NHS in a generation.
Editor Alastair McLellan talks to guest host Ben Clover about the “pig of a year” warned of by senior leaders. Then finance correspondent Henry Anderson takes us through the mood music on bringing back PFI, an expensive way of getting new capital into the system – but is it the only option?
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