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Ministers must spend an extra £8bn a year on health, on top of the NHS’s £20.5bn budget boost, or the service’s long-term plan will fail, according to hospital bosses and NHS experts warn.
Waiting times will keep getting worse, hospitals will remain overstretched and efforts to reduce ill-health will falter without a further major injection of cash, they claim in a new analysis.
The department of health and social care’s (DHSC) budget is due to rise to £155bn in 2023/24 as a result of the £20.5bn extra a year Theresa May promised last year to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday.
But the next prime minister will have to increase that to £163bn or the NHSlong-term plan will not transform the service so that it can cope with the demands of the ageing and growing population, it is claimed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...extra-8bn-long-term-plan-fail-hospital-bosses
Waiting times will keep getting worse, hospitals will remain overstretched and efforts to reduce ill-health will falter without a further major injection of cash, they claim in a new analysis.
The department of health and social care’s (DHSC) budget is due to rise to £155bn in 2023/24 as a result of the £20.5bn extra a year Theresa May promised last year to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday.
But the next prime minister will have to increase that to £163bn or the NHSlong-term plan will not transform the service so that it can cope with the demands of the ageing and growing population, it is claimed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...extra-8bn-long-term-plan-fail-hospital-bosses