title: Fiscal fiasco: a time of reckoning for the NHS.
abstract: Winter storms have been few and far between so far, but 2008 is ending in a maelstrom of uncertainty. The threatening cloud of economic downturn has become a gloomy reality, and hundreds of thousands of people across the UK, and millions more around the world, are facing the threats of unemployment, home repossession and economic hardship.
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pollard
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D004467:Economics; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014478:Unemployment; D006113:United Kingdom