Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 £240m in debt even before 'no deal Brexit'

How healthy are our hospitals' finances even before the 'no deal Brexit' that our new Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ally Michael Gove seem hell bent on aiming for?

There is this from the freebie newspaper Camden New Journal of my former local area:

Royal Free faces debt of £240million

NHS Trust posts record deficit, with 'significant doubt' over whether it can go on

15 August, 2019 — By Tom Foot

The Royal Free Hospital 
AN NHS trust that balanced its books seven years ago has posted a record deficit and is fore- cast to have racked up £240million in repayable loans by the end of the year, an independent audit has revealed.

The Royal Free London Group’s debt is casting a “significant doubt” about its ability to “continue to provide healthcare services”, the Pricewaterhouse-Coopers report said.

The audit is buried in a 330-page Royal Free annual report that says seven loans worth £243.9m will be owed to the Department of Health and Social Care by the end of March....

Continue reading at http://camdennewjournal.com/article/royal-free-faces-debt-of-240million

Perhaps an 'advantage' for Boris in 'no deal Brexit' as an exercise in 'disaster capitalism' is that it make the prospect of dissolving the NHS more feasible?
 

Vote for Policies and Make Votes Matter for true, informed debate, democracy

Yesterday morning, I blogged Government's funding proposal for Sizewell C proposed nuclear reactor exemplifies 'government by market forces'.

Reflecting on this and its 'silly season' timing exacerbated by the 'no deal Brexit' smokescreen of a 'debate', I came up with the heading for this blog post. One of the great tragedies of the FPTP (First Past the Post) voting system's unfairness in the UK is that it bolsters an alienation between the electorate and the political establishment. In the backdrop of such alienation, paid political lobbyists and the megabucks funders of the mainstream political parties dominate, as do the lobbyists of the big UK 'charities' that only purport to support the disadvantaged people they are supposed to represent. Do political pollsters reflect public opinion or manipulate it? And what about the prospect of Voting for Policies?

And I note that Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom's brother-in-law, one family step removed from her husband, is a major funder of the Tory Party.  

Opposing FPTP and its hangers on is the cross-party campaigning organisation, Make Votes Matter: The Movement for Proportional Representation.