Health funding cuts proposals slammed

OLDHAM East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has attacked plans to cut funding to Oldham’s Clinical Commissioning Group.

She warned the organisation could lose more than £11 million — equivalent to £46 from the health budget of every person in the area.

Later this month, NHS England will decide how much money clinical commissioning groups will receive to fund healthcare for their population.

Mrs Abrahams said the proposed changes would see well-off Windsor gain an extra £120 per head — breaking the rule that gives communities with the greatest health problems the money they need and giving it instead to areas that already have greater life expectancy.

The MP said: “It is nothing short of immoral to raid NHS funding in Oldham East and Saddleworth to give it to more affluent areas.”