NHS bosses 'bloody stupid' to expect £4bn cash injection

Ministers will have been annoyed by ‘negativity’ of health service’s leadership, says outgoing NHS Improvement chief

The NHS’s leadership was “bloody stupid” to expect an emergency £4bn cash injection in last month’s budget, the official who until last week ran the service’s financial regulator has said.

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