Funding hole cash 'to pay for Sick Kids'
EXTRA cash given to NHS Lothian to address a funding shortfall is expected to be channelled towards the £250 million new Sick Kids hospital.
The Scottish Government handed the health board 14m as part of its 2011 budget in a bid to reduce the 70m black hole the board said it had been left with by ministers.
While that cash has been welcomed, it has now emerged that ministers expect much of it to go towards the new paediatric facility at Little France.
The funding boost is part of the "unfair" NHS Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC).
NHS Lothian's director of finance, Susan Goldsmith, said: "Scottish Government colleagues have indicated, albeit informally, that the increased NRAC funding is also a contribution to the development costs for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences projects."
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