FORMER health minister John Denham is on a collision course with Southampton hospital bosses after demanding to know why their cash crisis is getting worse.
The Southampton Itchen MP has criticised managers at the trust which runs the city's three NHS hospitals after the Daily Echo revealed they were more than £2.5m worse off than in April despite five months' of massive cutbacks.
He is set for a face-to-face showdown with health chiefs to find out what they are doing with government money that is being pumped into the hospitals at record levels.
Mr Denham spoke out after the Daily Echo confronted him at Labour's party conference in Brighton.
Bosses at the trust which runs Southampton General, the Royal South Hants and the Princess Anne hospitals have rejected his claims that bad management is to blame for the rising debts. They say the service they are trying to provide is simply not affordable.
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