Spending Review 2015: Government announces it’s spending another £10bn a year on NHS
The government has announced today that it will spend an additional £10bn a year above inflation by the end of the decade on the NHS.
The additional funding will help pay for 800,000 more operations and treatments, 2m more diagnostic tests and 5.5m more outpatient appointments, according to the Treasury. The extra cash is also expected to pay for up to £2bn worth of new medications.
Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), chancellor George Osborne said it “only because” the government has “taken the difficult decisions needed to cut the deficit” that it is able to commit another £10bn a year by 2020 to the NHS.