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Children's hospital services 'at risk' from tariff system

(The Times)The chief executives of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, Alder Hey in Liverpool and Sheffield and Birmingham Children’s Hospitals say in a letter that the operation of the tariff — the list of fixed prices for NHS procedures — will leave them about £22 million a year worse off.

I do think that Labour taking on the children's hospitals is ill advised. Children's hospitals do tend to be more expensive for operations because of the additional care that goes in to handling children and involving parents.

Based on calculations that they have made so far, Great Ormond Street expects to lose £5.93 million in 2006-07, Alder Hey £11.03 million, Sheffield £2.5 million, and Birmingham Children’s Hospital at least £2.6 million — a total of £22 million.

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