A top official of the NHS has recently said in an interview with Guardian Healthcare that beds under the organization have been coming down at a constant rate since the 1970s. Though, he did opine that the public is able to get by with such changes as long as services provided by the NHS keep improving.

The man in question is none other than the Chief Executive Officer of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, who said that changes brought about to the NHS needed to be explained in a better manner. He felt that the biggest challenge faced by the NHS was communication over everything else.

During the course of interview, he informed that surveys carried out on job cuts did not present the complete picture, if people lose their job in one region, the NHS hires more people in another place; however, the NHS rarely talked about such changes. He informed that the money saved by NHS in one region was utilized in other places to improve healthcare there.

Prior to the interview, Nicholson had spoken at the Healthcare Innovation Expo in London and has said that the best way to go about the health budget was to act in an innovative manner.