NHS suffering worst ever staff and cash crisis, figures show

The NHS’s staffing and financial problems are the worst they have ever been, official health service figures show.The number of vacancies across the NHS in England has hit a record high while NHS bosses have disclosed for the first time the service’s underlying deficit built up over recent years – £4.3bn.At the end of June the health service had 107,743 unfilled posts, up 9,268 from the 98,475 total seen just three months earlier, NHS Improvement said in its latest quarte