NHS The next week is ready to be one of the big winners spending review – With an increase of £ 30 billion at the cost of other public services.
The Department of Health and Social Care is determined to get The biggest settlement in GovernmentReview the review of next week, while other areas will face cuts.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will argue that labor is investing in health, Security and economyaccording to the report Many times.
The Health Department has been given 2.8% annual growth in the day-to-day budget over a period of three years. It is £ 17 billion in real terms by 2028 – £ 30 billion. According to the report, healthcare capital expenditure budget will increase only to inflation.
The Raves will add £ 113 billion in a year to the infrastructure expenses for projects designed to develop the economy, such as a new generation of C -sized C -nuclear power plant and mini reactors.
Bringing down the NHS waiting time was one of the major commitments of Labor. Sir Kire Stmper has promised to ensure that 92% of patients in England are waiting for planned treatment from the next election, they are seen within 18 weeks of references.
The latest NHS data shows that around 60% of people have been seen at this time at this time and data released last month showed that the total number of patients in the waiting list increased from 6.24 million to 6.25 million.
Meanwhile, to meet the difficult financial savings goals this year and to reduce the loss of about 6.5 billion pounds to NHS, hospital leaders warned that they are being forced to cut frontline services.
The NHS received £ 3.1 billion in additional capital investment in the 2024 budget, however, health leaders warned that it was a decrease of £ 6.4 billion per year for NHS, which was to meet the productivity target of 2 percent a year.
A recent analysis of the Nafield Trust suggests that since coming to the office, Labor has spent healthcare to grow at a rate of 2.9 percent for 2024–25 and 2025–26. Between 2011 and 2023-24, the budget increased by 2.4 percent.
For 2025–25, £ 1.5 billion of additional funding for NHS is due to covering the cost of increase in national insurance contribution, which means that for this financial year, the increase in expenditure will actually be less than 2 percent, the Nafield Trust is estimated.
After the autumn budget, £ 22.6 billion was allocated to an additional DHSC, but it would be absorbed by spending pressures such as inflation and waiting time targets.
NHS Federation Chief Executive Officer Matthew Taylor told Many times Without major changes in the way of treating patients of healthcare, an increase in funding is “not able to get recovery and improvement”.
“Without additional capital investment, either through the traditional or private sector, I do not think it is possible to combine recovery and improvement,” he said.