title: Austerity is a choice.
abstract: Our NHS is in a financial crisis, with nine in ten hospitals overspent as a result of years of funding squeezes.
authors.affiliation: East Midlands.
authors.forename: Joan Pons
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Laplana
mesh_terms: D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom