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Health spending over the next two years will grow less than during the austerity era of the last decade, according to a new analysis of the autumn statement.
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, a former health secretary who previously campaigned for greater resources from the backbenches, announced last week that the NHS would receive an extra £3.3bn in each of the next two years. With severe pressures growing on the service, he said it would be one of his “key priorities”.
However, research by the Health Foundation charity has found that when the whole health budget is included – covering the NHS, training, public health services and capital investment – it will only increase by 1.2% in real terms over the next two years. That is below the 2% average seen in the decade preceding the pandemic, as well as the historical average of about 3.8%.
www.theguardian.com
It really is a false economy
Ever-increasing waiting lists and economically-inactive population will simply make it harder for the country to get back on its feet, to say nothing of the suffering it is causing
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, a former health secretary who previously campaigned for greater resources from the backbenches, announced last week that the NHS would receive an extra £3.3bn in each of the next two years. With severe pressures growing on the service, he said it would be one of his “key priorities”.
However, research by the Health Foundation charity has found that when the whole health budget is included – covering the NHS, training, public health services and capital investment – it will only increase by 1.2% in real terms over the next two years. That is below the 2% average seen in the decade preceding the pandemic, as well as the historical average of about 3.8%.
UK health spending ‘to grow less than in austerity era’, analysis reveals
The chancellor’s extra billions for healthcare will equate only to a real-term rise of 1.2%
www.theguardian.com
It really is a false economy
Ever-increasing waiting lists and economically-inactive population will simply make it harder for the country to get back on its feet, to say nothing of the suffering it is causing