NHS’s burden could ultimately worsen as budget for recruitment,training health professionals and health bodies is chop by 25% under spending reviewThe chancellor has done a lot to burnish the Conservative party’s standing on the NHS. He has given the health service an additional £3.8bn for 2016-17 – which is most of the additional cash that its boss had been seeking – and earmarked 600m of the money to fund overdue improvements in mental health care, such as for new mothers and those in crisis.“As [NHS England chief executive] Simon Stevens said, and ‘The NHS has been heard and actively supported,’” George Osborne said after the announcement.
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Source: theguardian.com