Engage: Is the 3.4% spending increase enough to ‘save’ the NHS?
The good news is that the NHS has received a 70th “birthday gift” in the form of a 3.4% per year increase in real spending over the next five years.
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PM announces £20 million funding for projects to tackle ‘devastating’ impact of loneliness
Twenty million pounds is to be pumped into projects that tackle the “profound and devastating impact” of loneliness, Theresa May has said. The funding for community projects and charities that
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Extra NHS cash will ‘go down the drain’ without action on social care
A multi-billion pound increase in NHS funding will “go down the drain” unless action is taken on social care, a leading medic has warned. Labour peer Lord Turnberg, a former
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Trade union calls for Government to fund NHS properly or call general election
The leader of one of the country’s biggest trade unions has called on the Prime Minister to fund the NHS properly or call a general election. Dave Prentis, general secretary
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Taxpayers will contribute ‘a bit more’ to fund £20 billion-a-year NHS plans
Tax rises to support a £20.5 billion-a-year boost to the NHS budget will be “fair and balanced”, Theresa May has vowed. The Prime Minister insisted the Government would take a
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Prime Minister announces NHS to get extra £384 million per week after Brexit
The NHS is to get an extra £384 million a week after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May has said. In a major announcement to mark the 70th anniversary of the
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Ex-health ministers call for more streamlined NHS and free social care at point of need
The NHS could benefit from a “radical simplification” of streamlining and making social care free at the point of need, former Labour and Tory health ministers have suggested. Lord Ara
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Gordon Brown: Independence would leave Scotland facing ‘austerity until doomsday’
Scotland would face “austerity until doomsday” if the country became independent, former prime minister Gordon Brown has said. He issued the warning as he called for politicians north and south
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Institute for Fiscal Studies warns adult social care funding 9% lower than decade ago
Adult social care spending is 9% lower than a decade ago, despite councils pumping extra cash into the system at the expense of other services, a new report has warned.
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Social care system pushing young towards criminal gangs, Commissioner warns
Children are being pushed towards violent street gangs by a social care system that focuses money on a small number of the most serious cases, the Children’s Commissioner for England
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