article_snippet.sent: Sir David delivered a stark warning earlier this month over the black hole in hospital finances.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David said there was a 'substantial financial problem' at the heart of NHS and claimed the financial peril
article_snippet.sent: NHS faces will soon be 'crystal clear'.
article_snippet.sent: NHS will not publish this year's accounts until after the UK general election on May 7.
article_snippet.sent: But by December 2014, more than two out of three NHS hospitals were in the red.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, nineteen NHS trusts were referred to ministers after auditors raised concerns about nineteen NHS trusts financial health.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, nineteen NHS trusts were referred to ministers after auditors raised concerns about nineteen NHS trusts financial health.
article_snippet.sent: It also comes amid growing pressure on English hospitals' finances, amid warnings of a financial 'black hole'.
article_snippet.sent: Former NHS chief Sir David Nicholson said there was a 'substantial financial problem' at the heart of NHS and claimed the financial peril a 'substantial financial problem' at the heart of the NHS faces will soon be 'crystal clear'