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The health board chief executive stated: “The financial challenge, I would want committee members to be aware, is quite extraordinary at the moment. Speaking about the financial situation, he told the committee that the scale of the gap in funds was such that “if I was to turn it into workforce, I technically can’t afford one in 10 of my workforce, but clearly I need all of those people and more to deliver the service demands we are facing”.

It has been difficult, but it has not been as it is now and as it appears it is going to be.” He told the committee: “That’s not how Scotland has been over the past decade. He conceded NHS Dumfries and Galloway was “probably at the top end” when it came to financial pressures, but Mr Ace said all boards were “reporting real difficulties” with breaking even.

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He told MSPs on Holyrood’s Health Committee that his health board would have a deficit this year “for the first time this century”.Īnd he said that achieving efficiency savings would not be enough to tackle the problems – warning instead that “real difficult decisions” may have to be made.Īce said the health board set the target of achieving 3% efficiency savings, which he said was “right up there at the historic high levels the system has ever achieved”.īut he told MSPs: “That is not enough, it doesn’t bridge the gap, indeed the gap continues to grow.” Read More Related Articles

Jeff Ace, chief executive of NHS Dumfries and Galloway, said the difficulties facing the NHS at the moment were “not part of our usual ‘times are difficult’ financial pressures”. An NHS boss has spoken out about the “extraordinary” challenges the health service is currently facing – telling MSPs his health board technically cannot afford a tenth of the staff working for it.