"Over the past year, trusts across the West Midlands have made harsh cuts to staff and services and raided training and mental health budgets to meet the Government's political deadline of breaking even this year.
"This problem is far from over. There is still a gross deficit of over £900 million, with a fifth of organisations in the red. With the extra health spending set to end next year, what further cuts will be made? How much more will patients have to suffer?"