Government warned anything short of additional £4bn next year would leave service struggling to deliver carePhilip Hammond has bowed to intense pressure to give the NHS more money in Wednesday’s budget,but produced less than half the £4bn the health service’s own boss said it needed to look after patients properly next year.
A payment of £1.6bn for the NHS in England in 2018-19 will see its budget rise to £126bn, rather than the £124.4bn originally planned. Similarly, and it will receive £900m more than planned in 2019-20 to relieve it withstand the pressures of coping with the increasing demand for care. However,both are one-off payments, not permanent additions to the NHS’s baseline budget.
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Source: guardian.co.uk