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Health spending plans revealed in Autumn Statement
An additional £2 billion is to be spent on the NHS in what the Telegraph has described as "an attempt to avert a crisis in hospitals and modernise the healthcare system."
Osborne said that it is “a simple truth” that “you can’t have a strong NHS without a strong economy to pay for it”.
“If you don’t have a long-term plan for the economy, you don’t have a plan for the future of the NHS. We have both,” he says.
“It’s because our economy is growing, and we’ve kept a tight control on the finances, that we can do more for the NHS. I can confirm that we will invest an extra £2 billion next year in our front line NHS, across the UK. This will support the day-to-day work of our incredible nurses, doctors and other NHS staff. But it is also a down-payment on the future of our health service.”
Welcoming the announcement of £1 billion to be invested over four years in GP services, Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation, said: “There is now consensus between patients groups and medical professionals that increasing the capability and capacity of out-of-hospital care is vital in order to sustain our NHS to be free at the point of need.
“Private sector investment can help this transformation. However, we do need to see further movement of resources from the secondary care system into primary and community care to enable NHS England to have the capability to increase the amount that it spends on new GP facilities.”
Another plan unveiled in the statement is for a £15 million tranche of funding to research a cure for dementia. Alzheimer’s Research UK welcomed the investment. The charity’s director of external affairs, Hilary Evans, said: “This represents another step forward in the fight to tackle what is our greatest health challenge and a devastating condition."
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