NHS boss resigns over ‘unrealistic’ funding cuts

Lord Kerslake has resigned as boss of King’s College Hospital because of funding problems with the NHS.

The peer announced he was stepping down as chairman of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London yesterday.

He said: “I do not do this lightly ... but [I] believe the Government and regulator are unrealistic about the scale of the challenge facing the NHS and the trust. There are undoubtedly things that I and the trust could have done better ... but fundamentally our problems lie in the way that the NHS is funded and organised.”