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(Posted: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 )

Ministers ‘to take control’ of hospital charity cash - Times article

Hundreds of millions of pounds of charity donations to hospitals are to be “nationalised” under an NHS accounting change, which critics say will make it easier to slash health budgets.

Ministers are imposing new rules on NHS charities requiring all donations — including those to specialist children and cancer units, local fundraising campaigns, teaching hospitals and local community trusts — to be listed on a hospital’s balance sheet.

Read the full article published in the Times online on 29th December, 2009 to discover the full implications of this.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6969955.ece